Kevin Sorbo has a message for Hollywood.
The actor is calling out what he sees as Hollywood’s double standard for conservatives, arguing that creators who embrace Christian or traditional values can find themselves blacklisted.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sorbo, who appears in the faith-based movie “Elijah Peel,” compared Hollywood’s treatment of conservative and Christian voices to the behavior of schoolyard bullies.
“That’s why I find a lot of things in Hollywood, with their blacklisting people that have conservative or Christian viewpoints, I find it like they’re seventh grade mean girls. It’s just ridiculous and childish to me. We all have different opinions. There’s nothing wrong with that,” Sorbo said.
The “Hercules” star’s comments came while discussing “Elijah Peel,” a true-story-inspired drama about a rock star whose meteoric career, addiction and self-destructive lifestyle come crashing down after a near-fatal heart attack.
The movie, from executive producers Willie and Korie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty,” follows Elijah as he encounters a remarkable young girl whose faith ultimately forces him to confront the life he’s been living.
Sorbo plays Elijah’s talent manager, a man desperately attempting to keep the troubled rock star’s life from completely falling apart.
The movie’s themes of addiction, redemption and spiritual transformation also prompted Sorbo to discuss his belief that some struggles can involve more than physical or psychological factors.
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When Fox News Digital asked Sorbo whether addiction can sometimes be a spiritual battle as much as a physical or psychological one, Sorbo didn’t hesitate.
“Oh, most definitely. Most definitely. I think it covers all those bases,” he said.
Sorbo also said “there’s no question” he has encountered what he considers genuine spiritual darkness during his years in Hollywood.
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“I think there’s a lot of demonic stuff going on out there,” Sorbo said.
He criticized efforts to remove Christian and religious references from schools and other institutions, tying the issue to what he described as America’s Christian founding values.
“It’s weird when America was founded on really Christian values by our founding fathers, and now they want to get rid of all these things out of schools,” he said. “We took the Bible out in ’64. We want to take plaques that have been locked in the buildings built in the 1700s in the Ivy League. And now students go, ‘I’m offended by that. Take it down.’ Well, maybe I’m offended by you being offended. When does it end?”
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Sorbo has previously spoken openly about his Christian faith and conservative political views, positions he said can make navigating Hollywood particularly difficult.
“It’s the conservatives that are in the closet now because they saw me get canceled,” Sorbo said. “But I’m still working. And I get a lot of these actors stop me at events we’re at, and go, ‘Hey man, thanks for being a voice for us.’ And I go, ‘be a voice for yourself, let’s stop letting fear rule your life.'”
Sorbo told Fox News Digital “Elijah Peel” is part of a larger conversation about faith, morality, addiction and the possibility of redemption.
For Sorbo, that message was precisely what attracted him to the project.
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“I think we hear a lot about rock and roll stars, you know, the fall down, the women, the sex, the drugs, you know, the booze and everything like that,” Sorbo said. “But you don’t hear a lot of the redemption stories that come out for some of those people.”
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Sorbo said the movie offers something he believes is increasingly rare in Hollywood — a story about what happens after someone hits rock bottom.
“I like movies that are based on true stories and I like movies that have redemption in them because we don’t do many of those anymore,” Sorbo said.
“And that’s kind of the road that I’ve been on for a while. Hollywood used to make movies like this that had good messaging in it.”
“Elijah Peel” is currently playing in theaters.
