Antonio Sabato Jr says he's been blacklisted in Hollywood

[TexasBushwhacker]

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/antonio-sabato-jr-blacklisted-for-supporting-donald-trump-republican-1201829791/

"I’ve had fantastic directors who have said officially to my agents and managers they will never hire me again."

I guess he's learned bald face lying from Trump. You can't get blacklisted if you're already a has been. He's been lucky to get parts in single tv episodes and TV/direct to video movies for the last 10 years. He had a part in the 3 Stooges movie. He was "Handsome Man #1".

"My work and my life is based on God. My leader, the one I look up to, is Jesus Christ. I’ve seen people in the industry say, “I’m not going to talk to this guy, because he talks about Jesus Christ.”

This coming from a guy who's fathered 3 children by 3 different women, all out of wedlock.

[niyad]

1. how many agents and managers (both plural) does a washed-up has-been need?

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. I noticed that too

Maybe one for acting gigs and another for reality TV? One for US and one for international?

He is also the INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY SPOKESPERSON for AnastasiaDate.com.

One of the most ludicrous casting choices I've ever seen is when he played the title role in "Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas". You remember Henry, right?

[niyad]

8. sorry, have no idea who that person is/was???

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Ever heard of Google? n/t

[matt819]

46. Thats not the point

Yes we all know Google and IMDb. The point is thAt this guy is not a readily known name. Jonah hill? Yep. Chris Pratt? Sure. High jackman? Ok. Antonio sabAto? Hang on A sec, let me look that up.

[TexasBushwhacker]

52. Gotcha. My bad n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

68. Chris Pratt?

I've been watching Parks and Recreation- I really like him. I wish Mouse Rat would release an album.

[Person 2713]

66. I liked the movie Henry: Potrait of a Serial Killer. Never heard of that one ^

[TexasBushwhacker]

70. Cheaply made. Straight to video. Absolutely awful. n/t

[Person 2713]

74. Then may I recommend Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer instead . Cheaply made but great film

Big guts and gore though
Warning

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry:_Portrait_of_a_Serial_Killer

Critics who liked the film tended to focus on the sense of newness it brought to the saturated horror genre. Roger Ebert, for example, called Henry "a very good film," a "low-budget tour de force," and wrote that the film attempts to deal "honestly with its subject matter, instead of trying to sugar-coat violence as most 'slasher' films do."[7] Elliott Stein of The Village Voice called it "the best film of the year...recalls the best work of Cassavetes." Siskel & Ebert called it "a powerful and important film, brilliantly acted and directed." Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune said it was "one of the ten best films of the year...combines Fritz Lang's sense of predetermination with the freshness of John Cassavetes."[16] In a review from 1989, Variety wrote the film "marks the arrival of a major film talent" in McNaughton.[17]

In 2013, a group of Belgian researchers praised the film for its very realistic depiction of a clinical psychopath.[18]

[TexasBushwhacker]

75. Yes, I've avoided because of the gore

I think I watched 15 minutes of Anerican Psycho before I had to turn it off. I caught the Sabato film on TV and just watched it to see how bad it was.

[Happyhippychick]

2. Don't you have to be relevant to be blacklisted?

[Initech]

65. Yeah somehow direct to video stardom doesn't translate into a lucrative career.

[brucefan]

3. Who?

[sakabatou]

45. My question as well

[Grown2Hate]

4. So these "fantastic directors" wasted their time to call Antonio's agents and managers to say they

wouldn't hire him? Are they all calling Scott Baio's "agentS and managerS" too?

[Cali_Democrat]

6. I've never heard of this person before. nt

[Igel]

10. It's like not hearing about somebody in a boy band from 20-25 years ago.

Boy band members are known while they're adored by girls who like boys. Few boy band members are in their mid-40s. Too much like having teenage girls and young women thinking men their father's age are sexy.

[Igel]

7. It's a question of when he was blacklisted (assuming he was).

A lot of times what happens is that people just don't want to work with some actors. It's a political statement, to (not) hire an actor for a lot of people. Sometimes they justify it, most often the don't. It has nothing to do with their product. It has to do with supporting or not supporting somebody.

It's like not patronizing a store because you don't like something about the owner. Perhaps he's (R) or Muslim, Jewish or black or a big NRA supporter, all of which are unrelated to the fact that what he's selling is garden equipment. Still, you avoid him because of something unrelated to his business. We find this to be a good thing when it serves us, but swap judgments so it's a horrible thing when it hurts "us." Hypocrisy, like humility, is falling out of the public moral lexicon.

If most directors and producers fall into one party, or there's peer pressure among them, the effect is the same whether it's official or unofficial. Much like racism doesn't have to be "institutional" to be racism. I guess Sabato would be saying it's "structural blacklisting" or "institutional blacklisting." As opposed to "Jim Crow" law-based blacklisting.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. It's just as likely he's blacklisted for being on soap operas

His main claim to fame is being a regular for a few years on General Hospital in the 90s and Bold and the Beautiful in 2005-2006. Some actors get their start in soaps and go on to bigger and better things (Kathleen Turner, Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan) but most don't.

[yeoman6987]

13. It doesn't happen at all to conservative actors by a long shot

Patricia Heaton is quite conservative and has been the star of two hit shows. Clint as crazy and conservative he is is working at age 86. Bruce Willis is Repug and works. And there are many others. I think the ones crying Antonio, Victoria, baio, kirk all have something in common.....horrible acting skills. So I find the Hollywood blacklist conservatives complete bull crap.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. I believe Kelsey Grammer did okay too n/t

[louis c]

17. john Voigt is doing OK

I jus watched that piece of shit as Micky in the series "Ray Donavon"

[Tanuki]

23. Robert Duval, Clint Eastwood, to name a couple of well-known

Conservatives who remain heavy-hitters. This guy's claim is ridiculous.

[awoke_in_2003]

71. I am sad Duval is conservative...

but I have always enjoyed watching him perform.

[Sissyk]

77. Gus!!

LOnesome Dove

[awoke_in_2003]

78. Loved him in Open Range, too

Bluebonnet "Boss" Spearman.

[obamanut2012]

29. Robert Downey, Jr. is doing fine -- as is James Woods and Sarah Michelle Gellar

RDJ is a HUGE star, and Woods and Gellar get decent work

[renate]

69. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Please don't tell me Robert Downey Jr is a Republican!

[obamanut2012]

31. Also: Kevin Costner and Denzel Washington do fine, and also James Earl Jones

Joan Rivers did fine before her death.

[TheDonnasRule]

51. Is Denzel Washington a Trump supporter?

That is very depressing for me if it is true.

[rockfordfile]

54. Costner and Washington are Democrats

[JI7]

35. why doesn't Clint Eastwood hire these people ?

[LynneSin]

44. Because Bradley Cooper can act a heck of alot better and is damn fine looking

Which ironically Cooper, who is an ardent Hillary Supporter, was in one of Clint Eastwood's latest movies. 'American Sniper' was about Chris Kyle, who is a hero to the right wing. Yet freepers freaked out when they saw Bradley Cooper, the actor who was nominated for an Oscar playing that part, at the DNC convention supporting Hillary.

[usedtobedemgurl]

59. Who says it is a good thing when it serves us and a bad thing when it does not?

I am a really big supporter of free speech and what Antonio did was free speech, just like what the Dixie Chicks did was free speech. I may not have wanted the Dixie Chicks to be hurt by all the bad publicity but I know that that is a part of being in a country where free speech is allowed. Their concert tickets and records sales were hurt by their statement but I agreed with what they said and I also knew people had a right to act against them for their words.

Free speech only means the government will not come lock you up, not that there are no ramifications to said free speech. Allegedly Anotonio has now been black listed. I did not see one person on this thread dance on his grave. I saw a lot of people wonder if he was being truthful. You have to admit that he has not had a lot of work even before the convention. And it seems out of line for these folks to just be calling up and saying, out of the blue, they will not hire him.

And we are allowed to not send our business to someone who is right wing, Christian, male, gay, etc.... I go to Lowes Hardware or Costco over the alternatives because I vote with my money. Yes, it has nothing to do with what they sell but it DOES have something to do with not supporting values that are not in line with my own. Is there something wrong with wanting to support causes near and dear to my heart or even supporting businesses that find it good to pay employees a living wage?

[Joanie Baloney]

12. Sorry, Antonio

Being blacklisted is NOT why you have no acting gigs. Lack of talent is why.

Jeeze!

-JB

[onecaliberal]

14. Who is this person?

[4lbs]

16. LOL. I'll just paraphrase one of the late night talk show hosts.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.?

Who?

Oh, the guy that was in the awful "Three Stooges" movie from 4 years ago, and credited as "Handsome Guy #1". They didn't even give his character a name!

[itcfish]

18. Maybe that Rightwinger Director

Clint Eastwood would give him a part in one of his movies, if he could actually act.

[Vinca]

19. How can he tell? Many of us had never heard of the guy before the GOP hate fest.

[Adrahil]

20. And ya know what? Fuck him. You lie down with dogs, you get fleas.

You associate with a piece of shit and say bat-shit crazy things, you pay the fucking price. Fuck you, Antonio Sabato Jr. Go get a job from Drumpf.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. I had to look up Antonio Sabato on IMDB

He's never been on any TV show/movie that I've wanted to see.

[underpants]

26. Not even "Bad Girl Island"?

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1031276/?ref_=m_nmfmd_act_26

[Hassin Bin Sober]

61. He's one of those names that cause me to skip over a film because I know it's shite if he is in it.

And this is before I knew he was a d-bag repig.

Antonio Sabato Jr., Dolph Lundgren, Stephen Baldwin, Eric Roberts. <<< junk films.

[Iggo]

22. And his career was going gangbusters before the convention, right?

[Johnny2X2X]

24. How to tell if someone is a Conservative

Step 1- They blame all of their problems on others.

There is no step 2. I have yet to hear a Con in the last 10 years take an ounce of responsibility for their own situation in life unless it's something good.

[C_U_L8R]

25. Maybe he's just a jerk

Or perhaps he has no talent.
Might be simpler truer explanations than a nefarious conspiracy

[MohRokTah]

27. Who? eom

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

28. I hear David Daleiden wants to hire him. eom

[obamanut2012]

30. Sabato's last thing was Celebrity Wife Swap a couple years ago

Give me a break.

[matt819]

32. Who is Antonio Sabato, Jr.?

Maybe that's why he's not getting any roles. No one knows who he is.

And it's okay if he talks to Jesus. The problem, in my view, is when Jesus talks back.

[Ace Rothstein]

33. Handsome Man #1

BWAHAHAHAHA

[Act_of_Reparation]

34. Oh, so that's why he's not in the movies.

I thought it was because he's a C-list actor, the likes of which are relegated to soap operas and one-off bit parts on network television programs. Obviously, I was mistaken.

[mercuryblues]

36. reality Tv contestant

whines about not getting acting gigs because of his support for a reality TV host, for President.

Because his acting gigs were so plentiful before he gave his support. All pretty much extras with a line.

[jodymarie aimee]

37. bully boy

This dick was on that show Celebrity Wife Swap and made a fool out of himself. Practically hit his young wife. She was bawling and said she would leave him, after spending a week with a fake husband. Funny how these bully boys always play the victim card.

[StrictlyRockers]

38. This link was previously posted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016164809

[randr]

39. It will be a long time before I do any business

with anyone I know has been a Trumpet. I own my own design/build firm and have the privilege of picking and choosing clients and I will not work with or for these anti American ass swipes.

[konnie]

40. eastwood is hiring

I am sure he could use sabato as a atshit crazy kkk/nra/drumpf supporter in his next 8 mm home movie.

[wishstar]

41. Maybe if he wasn't such a sleaze he could be in those Hallmark movies

Candice Cameron Bure and other Christian conservative "family values" actors are featured in the many G rated HallmarkChannel productions, but he hasn't been a wholesome enough role model to get hired there.

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Yup, started as an underwear model

and Chippendales dancer. The funny thing is, acting is a skill and can be learned, but you have to do the work. He just took the easy way and took roles based on his looks. Well, looks fade. He did knock up Virginia Madsen though!

[msongs]

42. it's god's will dude. go with yur lord nt

[Iggo]

56. I know! Why does he hate Jesus?

Fucking jerk.

[Tom Kitten]

43. I guess I've been blacklisted by Hollywood, too.

There's gotta be some reason why you don't see me in the movies.

[shenmue]

60. Yeah

[axiom3]

47. Never heard of this guy, and would prefer not to learn any more about him

This moron is the perfect example of a typical Trump supporter: arrogant, ignorant, and unwilling to accept personal responsibility. Therefore, it isn't really a surprise that Sabato's career is pretty much dead. And after he voiced such idiotic views, who would bother hiring him?

[randome]

48. So Jesus can pay you a fucking salary, then. Idiot.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Lance Bass esquire]

49. You would have to have some talent to be blacklisted.

He's fawking delusional.

[Gothmog]

50. Has this idiot even worked in the last couple of years??

To be blacklisted, one must first be popular enough to qualify for a role

[blueseas]

53. Who is he again?

[MrScorpio]

57. Wingers love playing the victim

Poor fella.

[ck4829]

58. "they will never hire me again." Are you sure it isn't because you're an insufferable tool?

You also need to act in order to be an actor.

[Iggo]

64. They were already not hiring him. (n/t)

[melm00se]

62. why should I care?

if you have talent, drawing power and aren't a PITA to work with (and haven't been caught on video having bondage sex with a goat), you will get hired.

If you have no talent, no drawing power and are a PITA, guess what? You aren't going to get hired.

[BlueCaliDem]

63. Antonio Sabato Jr.: "I think this country allows you freedom of speech.

Anybody should be allowed to say whatever they want. When you’re in my business, you can’t talk about [conservative] politics. You just can’t. You’re attacked viciously in a way that I’ve never been attacked before."

Um, Tony? Freedom of speech is the Right you're given when petitioning the Government, not private entities. Hollywood movies are private entities. When you exercise your freedom of speech that doesn't go over well with people in power, be prepared to pay for it. Freedom is not free.

Why do Republicans always claim to love the Constitution but have NO clue what's in it?

[SCantiGOP]

67. I am also being blacklisted

I haven't had a single movie offer in, well, ever.
Guess it's because I'm a Democrat and I don't go to church.

[haele]

72. I seem to remember he was considered hot stuff in the late 80's, early 90's...soap operas.

While there are some good actors that came up from the soaps (George Clooney....)the majority of them stay in that genre.
I've never actually heard of Sabato appearing in a major movie (or even indy) or major network series - even in a supporting role or guest appearance. I couldn't tell you a role that he's ever garnered notice from other than in the soaps - or maybe a Lifetime or Hallmark network production.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's a few actors that I've liked over the years that have been pretty much Lifetime/Hallmark network actors.

But - it's hard to be blacklisted if you never really made the list. Sabato is no Clooney.

Haele

[appleannie1]

76. I never heard of him so I looked him up. I am not into gawking at guys selling undies.

Maybe that is why I never heard of him. I also have a life and don't need to fill it with daytime soaps. That could be another reason. Point is, since I never even heard of him, I sure won't miss him if he is in fact black balled.