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Kurt Russell Believes Actors Should 'Step Away from Saying Anything' Political.


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Kurt Russell is talking about politics in Hollywood.

During a new interview, the 69-year-old actor says he thinks that actors should stay out of politics.

“I’ve always been someone who felt we are court jesters. That’s what we do,” Kurt shared with The New York Times.

“As far as I’m concerned, you should step away from saying anything so that you can still be seen by the audience in any character,” Kurt added.

Kurt did mention that there’s “no reason entertainers can’t learn just as much as anybody else about a subject, whatever it is.”

“But I think that what’s sad about it is that they lose their status as a court jester,” Kurt admitted. “And I’m a court jester. That’s what I was born to do.”

Kurt‘s longtime love Goldie Hawn was also part of the interview, and to her, she feels that celebrities voicing their political opinions is a “personal choice.”

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Kurt Russell has always been a class act.

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He is one of the few in Hollywood who can come out and not support liberalism. Most of them blindly support it because they need the work. One of the places in America where they will discriminate against you if you don't fall into line.

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Yet another reason to love him.

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I like how he's the total opposite to Sean Penn.

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Smart man

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He's right, 100 percent. He's not the first actor to have this opinion:

"I feel very strongly that actors haven't any business at all to shoot their faces off about things I know we know very little about."
--Gary Cooper

"Actors shouldn’t campaign because they live in another world from ordinary people. If actors got an ounce of sense with every dollar they made, it would be all right."
--Walter Brennan

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i find it is the least talented actor who are always preach about political beliefs. they are overcompensate for lack of talents.

talented actor like kurt russell doesnt need shout out about politics or sjw to be notice. his talent and good movies do all the talks.

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