Jack Kemp

There is a short entertainment article in the NY Post in which actor Samuel L. Jackson writes a profanity laced statement about his not caring if pro-Trump voters refuse to see his new movies, even not caring if they throw out his old ones in their home collections.

As I was reading it, I immediately thought "sure, Jackson is 70 and has made his money so he doesn't need more (and there are fewer jobs available for an aging actor)." Jackson himself mirrored my thoughts in the piece when he stated:

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If you never went to another movie I did in my life, I’m not going to lose any money. I already cashed that check. F–k you. Burn up my videotapes. I don’t give a f–k.”

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There is one thing Jackson didn't mention, namely that Hollywood producers, including liberal Democrats, care if half of America wants to boycott a movie with Samuel L. Jackson in it. Jackson's money is not at risk when he gets paid up front to act in a movie, but the producers' money and their financial backers is. And good luck trying to get a deal with a percentage of the profits when you are insulting half the audience here. Many movies make most of their profits overseas, but how many producers want to hurt their chances of profits in America before the movie even starts filming?

A number of Hollywood films alienate conservatives in their general ideas or even specifically such as "Vice" did. But there is a question whether some producer wants to put either their own money or that of their backers on a movie featuring an openly political actor who has just cursed half of America as EXPLATIVE DELETED deplorables. Samuel L. Jackson, in his desire to emulate Colin Kaepernick, has made it that much tougher for him to get hired in a move. And, once again, as he said, "I already cashed that check," he feels no need to leave his politics at home in any upcoming project he may - or may not - get. But the producers and their backers have not yet cashed their future box office receipts and could see the situation very differently, even if they totally agree with Jackson's politics. Its Jackson's economics that would give the producers pause.
   

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