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How Hollywood Alienated Middle America—And What’s Next | Nick Searcy
How has Hollywood changed in the last several decades, and why are film productions leaving Los Angeles and increasingly going abroad? Where is the industry headed, and what role should Trump’s “special ambassadors” to Hollywood play?
“Hollywood spent probably the last 15 or 20 years basically telling half of its audience that they don’t want them to watch, that they hate them, that they’re deplorables,” says actor and filmmaker Nick Searcy. “They’ve driven half the audience away.”
Searcy played James Baker in the Reagan biopic last year and is perhaps best known for his role as Art Mullen in…
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