If Someone were writing a script for a made for TV movie:
So there’s this prominent actor who has voiced his political beliefs for years and has actively campaigned and professionally mocked a candidate for a high office. He has been very successful in these ventures.
Unbeknownst to him, an individual who has access to the prop department working on a film and whose politics are contrary to those of the star substitutes a real, working weapon for the make-believe and the star unwittingly kills and injured members of the film crew. He is forever tainted by this event and becomes a figure of both pity and scorn, depending upon the politics of the individual audience member. Many years later he becomes the answer to a trivia question along with a very few others.
Such is the nature of fiction when dealing with awful facts.
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... just to achieve a political end. That's about as ruthless an outcome as one could imagine.
