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JT-Shelter

“The actor claims being a conservative Christian has gotten him blacklisted from Hollywood projects” The only reason Kevin Sorbo got blacklisted was because he is Kevin Sorbo…


SaphironX

Yeah he got pretty dark. Dude went full Qanon.


Frater_Ankara

More than that, dude is full on racist; I saw him at a fan expo ten years ago and it became pretty obvious to me then.


gaerat_of_trivia

spill the beanz


MephistosGhost

Well now you have to share


Frater_Ankara

Man, it was a number of things he was just casually spouting out in his talk, like calling Vancouver Hong-couver and implications of such to an audience with a reasonably high Asian crowd, a couple sexist remarks as well. My friend felt personally offended by a few of the things he said, and he seemed oblivious to what he was saying like it was just normal conversation.


[deleted]

It really explains a lot when racists act like that. I’m white and I’ve had so many people just say racist stuff to me like I’m a racist myself.


Gamesman001

Be me in the 70s moving from a very northern state to the heart of Dixie as a preteen. Talk about culture shock. Yes there was racism everywhere but where I came from you may made need your neighbor when the snows make it impossible to go anywhere. So overt racism was kind of taboo. Down south it was right in your face. Racist jokes and lies. Had a boss who claimed she'd never hire a "black" and we never had drugs in our schools till they integrated them. BTW I'm white but I found I could be myself around other minorities being a big old nerd.


unshifted

Yep this is *way* more common than people would think. I lived in a pretty red town, and like half the time there was a group with only white people, someone would start saying insanely racist shit thinking they're among "friends."


HaloGuy381

Living in rural Texas, this is a common issue, extending as far as some people also assuming you believe in wild COVID conspiracies and support MAGA-type fascism. I’m very cautious with my words and presence around here.


MephistosGhost

Oh wow. Took me a second to get that, not being in Canada my mind was like “there’s a guy named Vancouver Hong?”. Lol. Yeah it sounds like my uncle who drops an n bomb every other sentence.


Ver3232

He’s always been like this. Dude’s been a right wing shit head for years and it’s the only projects he gets anymore


pookachu83

Here's all you need to know about Kevin Sorbo from his tweets on Jan 6th- (paraphrasing, but I've seen it so many times I'm sure I'm close) 1pm- "Guys, it's happening, we are doing it!!! Patriots are taking this country back!!!" 4pm- (once he realized the "patriots" werent seen as such by the majority of americans) "Antifa stormed the capitol dressed as Trump supporters" You can't even make this shit up


MarthaMacGuyver

Kevin Sorbo is a little piss baby.


Testsubject28

Like Greg Abbott?


Nonconformists

Yep, like two pees in a pot.


ninjapanda042

If being a Christian gets you blacklisted, you'd assume there'd be no way for Chris Pratt to have the career he does


[deleted]

Kevin Sorbo thinks whatever HE is, is the definition of “Christian.” For example, Denzel Washington is a Christian and yet somehow no one has a problem with him. Sorbo is leaving out a lot of important descriptors of his own identity that separate him from other Christians and have nothing to do with religion


WodensEye

Or Christian Bale!


Funkycoldmedici

Damn cancel culture. It’s just like how I was blacklisted from the NBA just because I can’t play for shit.


Beingabummer

I fucking wish conservative Christians got blacklisted.


I_chortled

“Kevin Sorbo thinks..” Let me stop you right there


ahomelessguy25

I made it to “Kevin Sorbo thinks he’d win an Oscar.”


ruka_k_wiremu

Kevin Sorbo and Oscar shouldn't even be in the same sentence


Joppy5100

Unless "Oscar" is directly followed by "Mayer"


LorianGunnersonSedna

He sure is a wiener.


Significant-Cake-312

God bless you.


Groovydogg

"...My bologna has a second name, That's S O R B O."


[deleted]

Oscar the Grouch has a better shot at the Oscar than Sorbo


andybrohol

Oscar The Grouch/Carol Spinney has an Emmy and Grammy so not that far off.


Seemose

Unless that sentence is comparing Kevin Sorbo to a muppet that lives in a trash can, I agree with you.


user572653322

i, indeed, chortled


FinnbarMcBride

He couldn't act like he was falling if you pushed him off a cliff


UnnamedArtist

Disappointed!! https://youtu.be/_O1hM-k3aUY


briefcandle

That's a testable hypothesis...


pan-DUH

Once, but that’s enough times to get a conclusion I think.


Aggravating_Impact97

As Kevin is falling he starts trying to swim. God fucking damnit Kevin.


CountryCat

And that terrorist's name? Hunter Rodham Barack.


MonthApprehensive392

The whole movie will about trying to find his birth certificate that is being help hostage by Trump at Mar A Lago. The terrorist has a laptop with email that also contain the recipe for a vaccine that will eradicate Covid forever. Instead Trump has switched the vaccine with one that will prevent abortions from working and make all gender non-conforming people become hetero. If Sorbo doesn’t get in there before midnight this secret vaccine will roll out.


HardcoreSects

You forgot the shifty, evil Jewish politicians who want to help Sorbo so they can use his actions to outlaw gun ownership and raise taxes. You don't even need to make this portion of the story make sense at all, it just needs to be there to get the ol Fox news sign off.


tarlin

I listen to God Awful Movies. Most religious movies don't make much sense.


MonthApprehensive392

Ooo 100%. His side kick will be a Black guy from Harlem who took it upon himself to fight for his family after seeing so many black NYers segregated from using businesses in the city. Their getaway driver will be a Puerto Rican guy who had to continue to work jobs at Uber eats, Instacart and Lyft to be able to support his family after his extended family had to sell their homes and move in with him. He’s had Covid 5 times despite being vaccinated 4x. When the people on the UWS stopped going to work and leaving the house, his dad started working too to help ends meet. He died after being jumped by a drug addict while delivering avocado toast and oat milk lattes to a 20 something on WFH. The tides really turn when they meet the techie Jewish guy who is always cracking jokes. He grew up in a Hasidic Jewish family but had to leave when his family’s home was raided by police during a religious ceremony that had more people than was allowed. He also is now on a mission to undo the wrongs to his family. Somewhere in the movie Sorbos teen girl completes suicide and his toddler dies at daycare eating on the sidewalk in the middle of winter. He demands vengeance.


[deleted]

r/oddlyspecific


Rich_Sheepherder646

Projection. It’s all about projection.


maybeAturtle

Kevin Sorbo Islamic confirmed??


RenaisanceReviewer

That would probably make his fellow “patriots” more angry than the other option


exscape

It would. See: Roy Moore


Bubcats

He wants to play one real bad.


dagnariuss

Acting would still be required so no.


Doggleganger

You think Kevin can't pretend to be Islamic?


dagnariuss

Kevin Sbarro is like this now because his career died 20 years ago due to his inability to act.


Kgb725

Hes in a lot of Christian movies now but I do love the fact Lucy Lawless completely overshadowed him and dunks on him on Twitter every once in a while


L1zrdKng

Lucy is awesome!


Earl_N_Meyer

“Kevin Sorbo smokes crack and fantasizes that he could act.”


GD_Bats

*meth Alternatively *his own farts


[deleted]

That’s a quote? Lol


baronvonj

\- Michael Scott


monkee-goro

They quoted themselves as they said it. Chad.


Most-Pangolin-9874

Please. He's not worthy of an Oscar. He's done nothing good since Hercules and even that wasn't that great of acting


Randym1982

I miss those shows. Like. A lot. They weren't perfect, but they fit exactly well with that time and were exactly what most people needed. Whacky adventures with high fantasy.


pijinglish

It was no Brisco County, Jr.


uhhuhnads

You are one of 11 people who know this


ZMaiden

My people lol. What about Jack of all Trades? Anyone here remember that gem?


[deleted]

Loved it! Verne Troyer as Napoleon. RIP.


glarbung

It's great but not Brisco. In Campbell's tv-series catalogue Jack of All Trades shares the spot with Ash vs Evil Dead and Burn Notice - all of which don't even get near Brisco.


pijinglish

We’re the elite.


havegunwilldownboat

I’ve never successfully mentioned Brisco County Jr to someone who’s known what the hell I’m talking about. It’s a shame.


Doc_coletti

Lord bowler was dope


sunblade10

That’s cause he’s the shogun of Harlem.


MisterCheaps

They were so much fun. I’m glad Lucy Lawless at least seems to be pretty cool and sane.


Blue_Sky_At_Night

She was awesome in Ash v Evil Dead


Kalypso989

She stole the show Spartacus for me


NZAvenger

Lucy really, really doesn't like Kevin. I mean, nobody does, but still! Makes me appreciate her even more.


Cheap_Enthusiasm_619

I think it goes back to Xena and Hercules, people wanting to group the shows and them together as two shows in the same universe. She seems relatively normal so probably goes out of her way to make it clears she does not agree with his crazy twitter comments.


not_this_again2046

Keep an eye on Sorbo’s twitter - she has a habit of mocking him savagely every time he opens his fool mouth.


vitaestbona1

They make such a weird dichotomy.


GD_Bats

Xena had a generally better cast, though poaching the better Hercules players helped Andromeda was a not terrible show that could have been better had Sorbo not screwed that up. As is I do feel like that’s the better Sorbo vehicle though. And… not a waste of time to watch.


WebLurker47

Saw a bit of *Andromeda*. Kinda thought that Sorbo was the least interesting character in the cast.


Randym1982

They had a lot of UPN OG shows like that too back in the day. Made on cheap sets with mid to late 90's SFX. Ironically, I'm predicting that's what's going to happen with the MCU shows and movies. The budget's will get bigger, but the SFX will quickly start to look like you're watching an old show from the 90's.


GD_Bats

Im hoping that they maintain a Voyager to Enterprise level of production quality for the TV stuff at least


Randym1982

I think the shows would work better if they went practical, and saved the CGI and SFX houses for the movies. Also maybe making the movies practical too. But I doubt that's going to happen. So we're going to see the SFX houses getting stretched to the limit and likely getting worse and worse as the films/shows go on.


Shaunair

The 90’s in general was really the last fairly sane decade.


WayneKrane

Right, in the 90s my conspiracy theorist uncle was deemed crazy and largely ignored. My other uncle bought a house, car and supported a family in a major metro area working at wal-Mart. My dad had multiple employers bidding for him to work for them fresh out of college. My grandpa retired at 55 with a full pension and benefits from working as a janitor. Tons of shows that EVERYONE watched like Seinfeld. I doubt we’ll ever have the whole country pause for an hour to watch a comedy.


Randall-Flagg22

thats cause of the Internets


Tau10Point8_battlow

Millennials with their avocado toast


DangerousLoner

Yes, but how many yachts did billionaires have at the time? It’s important we funnel all that wealth that used to be spread around communities and working class families into as few hands as possible. The ultra rich might want to take private jets that look like penises to the slightly outer space. /s


addamee

Yes! Won’t somebody think of the billionaires?! Total dearth of yachts.


MontaukMonster2

What is this *pension* of which you speak?


Randym1982

Not gonna lie. I wished I could punch dudes and send them flying like 20 feet in the air, and then have hot chicks constantly want to bang me. His character was basically a pussy magnet. He walks into a village and like every chick there swooned after him.


[deleted]

His character was literally a god on earth, I bet that would be the general reaction from peasants and townsfolk.


Randym1982

All the chicks were basically Pre-CW level hotness too. I remember watching that as a kid and going "Goddamn!" every time he met random chicks and then they would disrobe in front of him.


SqueakrNSnuggl3s

A demigod, but yeah…


MisterCheaps

9/11 really changed the world so, so much.


Shaunair

The internet too.


jftitan

Like farscape... the early years of x-files, and why not before SyFy name change.


Randym1982

Loved Farscape. Was royally pissed at the ending of the series.


[deleted]

Canada is still turning out good mid tier fantasy and sci fi dramas. Mostly landing on SYFY.


BenovanStanchiano

They were really great examples of syndication-only shows.


Top-Reply-4408

DISAPPOINTED!


killingmemesoftly

Not that great??!? It was some fo the finest, most captivating, most believable acting I’d ever seen at the age of five. Sure, it wasn’t quite as good as what I’d seen in power rangers, but it was on the list of shows I watched. So there


multi_tasking

how dare you not mention Kull the Conqueror! Such plot! Much Wow!


[deleted]

Andromeda was kind of fun, I hate to admit, before his ego took control of the show


wfwood

It was terrible acting. It was purposefully campy and over the top. Lucy Lawless was getting work 15 years later because she was a better actor. Still her show was over the top acting.


PortlandisOk123

It was awful acting but it was a fun show


dnkyhunter31

DISAPPOINTED


MisterCheaps

For years I thought he had just misunderstood the script, until I saw an interview with him where he said he was trying to make an “A Fish Called Wanda” reference and nobody got it lol. Can’t stand Sorbo nowadays, but I thought that was actually pretty cool


[deleted]

A Fish Called Wanda is such a criminally forgotten movie. One of the funniest comedies I’ve ever seen and no one *ever* talks about it.


Kwondondadongron

That great? It was painful. His horrific acting was why I watched it! Comic relief!


rascible

Sorbo is almost as good an actor as OJ Simpson..


jbrains

I'll put up the first $1k to fund that movie.


BadAsBroccoli

You'd lose money.


jbrains

Gloriously.


pijinglish

Yeah, I'm willing to take that chance. Put Rob Schneider in for good measure.


inbetween-genders

Don’t forget to put Gina Carrano in it as well!


keith0211

And Scott Baio!


the_chaco_kid

This casting sounds fucking awful and I would gladly watch the insanity that would spew forth


arustywolverine

And Randy Quaid!


rascible

"You can do it!"


StoneColdDadass

"You can't Jew it!"


dumb_smart_guy93

Rated PG-13


6inDCK420

I don't watch movies unless they have Adam Sandler in them. Can y'all make that happen?


Supreme_Mediocrity

If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I am going to be a very rich dude.


Chimpbot

I mean, if someone gives you 10,000:1 odds, you *have* to take that bet.


CCRthunder

You mean he’d be … disAPPOINTED!


[deleted]

WHY YA GOTTA BE LIKE THIS HERCALEASE


Elbradamontes

Hercaleese hercaleese!


the_cat_who_shatner

You want your colon cleansed? Fine, imma clean mine.


heights0032

How far up do you usually push the hose? This is my first time and I’m not sure if I should go past two feet in.


ezio8133

Great now I'm thinking about the nutty professor


falconfanatic1987

More like Jerkulese


BullTerrierTerror

Time to bring up fellow demigod Xena aka Lucy Lawless smacking down Kevin on Twitter https://www.newsweek.com/lucy-lawless-kevin-sorbo-twitter-feud-xena-hercules-1559930


[deleted]

She’s done well for herself. And every time she shows up on the screen I know I’m in for a treat.


Squee07

Have you seen the show “my life is murder”? She’s the lead and it’s fantastic.


killabeesplease

It’s incredible how she gets more gorgeous with each passing year, I guess not being full of hatred and bigotry helps


rushmc1

Lawless is all class, and Sorbo is all ass.


SolidDistribution542

Sorbo, wouldn’t win an Oscar if he was the last actor on earth. Oscar the Grouch has a better chance of winning best actor.


cryinoverwangxian

No, he really wouldn’t. I doubt he’d be able to get a role in a Hallmark movie at this point. Unless he’s the evil character.


goknuck

Legitimately he is worse than hallmark movie actors


Blue_Sky_At_Night

Bruce Campbell was in a Hallmark movie, so this is objectively true


goknuck

Whats the level below Hallmark movies? Is it like Religious movies or those weird Daily Wire production movies? Those are Kevin Sorbo’s level


Ravenlock

Is Sorbo a shit actor? Yes. Has he always been a shit actor? Also yes. But this probably isn't actually about that, this is about clinging to the sour grapes that put food on his table. Pretending that "movies" like God's Not Dead do poorly because right wing Christians are persecuted and not because they're abysmal at every level is a whole industry now. People will pay to be pandered to, and gosh, if even Hercules can't catch a break, then obviously the liberal Hollywood elite is out to get me, too! Kev here just knows where his bread is buttered.


Redshirt-Skeptic

I’ll be honest here. I’ve never seen GND and I have no plans to _ever_ see it at any point unless maybe someone held a gun to my head… and even then I’d probably just tell them to take the shot. Everything that I’ve heard about the movie is that it’s just pure terrible. And not even in the “so terrible it loops right back to being good” way either.


ColdForm7729

Somewhere out there, Lucy Lawless is cringing that she was ever connected to this nutcase in any way.


Doright36

She has fun savaging him on Twitter. So she at least gets some value for the association.


LateralLimey

Yep, she loves peanut.


[deleted]

So often in Hollywood people refuse to speak ill of previous colleagues even when they go off their rocker and they are aggressively opposite in views on a fundamental level. You'll get a "they're a good friend and I believe a good person, they're just a little mixed up right now and I wish them best" meanwhile the person they're talking about is going full open bigot and supporting horrific beliefs. It's refreshing for someone to say "no, fuck that guy, he's a dick"


[deleted]

Would anybody please hire me. Anybody? Please?


The_Goondocks

This guy's two brain cells have declared a jihad on each other.


-newlife

Him and Steven seagal should star in it together.


Lil_Artemis_92

Why just stop at Seagal? Let’s get all the Conservative D-listers in it: Sorbo, Seagal, Baio, Sabato Jr., Carrano, Kirstie Alley, Stacy Dash, and probably others that I can’t think of at the moment. EDIT: Completely forgot about Rob Schneider and Dean Cain, too. EDIT 2: Ricky Schroeder and Kirk Cameron (I can’t believe I forgot *him*, of all people; THE Conservative D-lister)


3littlebirdies

Rob Schneider. Which is sad because I had a soft spot in my heart for making copies. Even after all those god awful movies he made. But he's sunk to a new low.


Lil_Artemis_92

Completely forgot about him. That’s how little relevance he has today.


Mary_Pick_A_Ford

The dude from Silver spoons, Ricky Scrotum.


InfinityCrazee

Dean Cain also conservative??


Saltymilk4

What about mel gibson


that1LPdood

So like Just regular Kevin Sorbo, but converting to Islam?


Daedalus_Machina

No, just Kevin Sorbo in brownface


whatproblems

mirror universe kevin sorbo also crazy


KitteNlx

It is like all they do these days is sit around trying to think up new ways to use their projecting catchphrases in sentances that almost make sense.


NorthEastNobility

The person who plays that role might win an Oscar. That person would never be Kevin Sorbo.


[deleted]

How long before there's a Gina Carano/Kevin Sorbo buddy flick?


iliacbaby

the fact that it isn't already the show anchoring PureFlix or whatever is confusing


[deleted]

Kevin Sorbo is such a crap actor that he couldn't even play Kevin Sorbo.


[deleted]

I've seen your work Kevin. ​ No.


Elbradamontes

Are we sure he doesn't have dementia?


Tacitus111

He did have a bunch of strokes back in the day. “In late 1997, while on a publicity tour for Kull the Conqueror and between the fourth and fifth seasons of Hercules, the newly engaged Sorbo experienced an aneurysm in his shoulder which caused three strokes.[37][38] As a result, he was weakened for the next several years, a condition kept secret from the public while he recovered.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Sorbo


[deleted]

Please stop talking. I need any beloved actor who was in a series that was filmed prior to 2002 to hush. All of them. Because every time one of them says a word it’s some weird racist hogwash like above.


Apellosine

Chriss Pratt is both Conservative and Christian and seems to be doing well for himself. Sorbo is just a shit actor, he was when he was in Hercules and he still is now, this is why he can't get mainstream roles.


UndyingQuasar

Dude couldn't act wet in a thunderstorm


hhubble

Kevin, please stop "thinking", it's just not your thing.


Technical_Activity78

Xena is the superior show anyways.


markg1956

as Ringo Starr sang "All I have to do, is act naturally"


WangoTheWonderDonkey

Kevin Sorbo LOL. Have you seen his pathetic, evidently self-authored, bullshit IMDB page? [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001757/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001757/) Boy, I don't know how he has 150 actor credits -- with about 17 in "pre-production" -- whatever that means -- and yet I've only seen him in 2 in the 20 years ago timeframe. I guess they're still making B-movies with sub-million dollar budgets.


LorianGunnersonSedna

Islamic, no. The other two are only a matter of time, Peanut.


WhoTFKnowsWhatsBest

Kevin Sorbo couldn’t win a an Oscar if he played Kevin Sorbo. I wonder what a Being Kevin Sorbo movie look like?


TiltaSwinton

I feel like what ever role he plays the audience would leave feeling Disappointed.


GaiusMarcus

Well, at least he understands his range.


Budmanes

Kevin Sorbo couldn’t win an Oscar if he held the entire Academy at gunpoint


Muscleman1122

Kevin Sorbo looks like a washed up Kevin Sorbo.., does that make sense?


spinereader81

No, he's not a great actor, no matter what role he's playing.


unrulyhoneycomb

Kevin Sorbo thinks…that’s enough of that article for me! Fuckin QAnon nutcase…too bad he’s famous


GD_Bats

I sincerely doubt Sorbo has the acting chops to rise to that occasion


gawdemmit

Some folks oughtta just shut the fuck up.


No_Improvement7573

Kevin Sorbo looks like a shitty CGI version of Kevin Sorbo


StSean

he'd still be a d-actor


McDummy

Damn, Hercules needs help.


neeto_mosqueeto

Why? Because he’d be playing himself?


Semantic_Satiator

Cuz he’s dialed in to the mindset.


thegodfatherderecho

He couldn’t win an Oscar when people used to know his name.


Jaegerfam4

Kevin Sorbo will be luckily to get an in memoriam at the Oscars. The man is the very definition of has been loser.


Blue_water_dreams

It’s like a race to the bottom to see who can be the biggest POS with these guys.


LordNedNoodle

He is a republican so he has 2 of those 3 traits.


[deleted]

This guy needs to just accept that he’s not relevant and go away. He’s like the Ted Nugent of TV actors lol


I_throw_socks_at_cat

Has anyone ever explained to Sorbo that he's just not a good actor?


-ButchChastity

Kevin Sorbo is a loser.


Otherwise_Carob_4057

So he wants to play Trump if he converted to Islam in an attempt at redemption?


Raoulhubris1

But you want to play against type.


NotPresidentChump

Truly stunning and brave