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Zachary Levi On Hollywood · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama. Dear Mama. Is Zachary Levi right
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  that Hollywood simply doesn't care about the audience. Well, let's ask our American
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  mama. Mama, Mama, and joining us now our American Mama. Terry
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  Netterville. I've liked Zachary Levi since he was in the TV series Chuck.
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  I thought those are great. Did you see his movie, the Kurt Warner
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  movie? He yes, I did, Yes, I did. I thought
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  that was a really interesting movie, really good movie, and again a Christian
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  perspective movie. So Zachary Levi's playing Shazam and a superhero movie for for the
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  DC universe, and he's and he's at one of these comic con type things
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  and people are asking about him, and he says, you know, the
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  problem is Hollywood just doesn't really care about you. He just spit it out
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  there and just no nonsense. Here's what I think. And when we have
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  celebrities like this unafraid to speak their truth, knowing that they're going to get
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  pushed back, he's definitely going to lose. That's how he makes his money,
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  right, And so I think that the more and more that these celebrities
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  speak out in these terms, the better it is for America. And it
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  will also make other celebrities who feel this way go. You know what,
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  if he can speak out, I am too, because you're finding that more
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  and more. But he said, how many times he told us Hollywood didn't
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  care. They don't care if you like the movie. That's why they're putting
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  out garbage, is what he said. He said, how many times have
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  you gone to the looked at the trailers, Oh my god, that looks
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  so cool. And then he says, then you go and you're you bought
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  your ticket, you're in the seat, they've got your money, and it's
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  like garbage. And so he said, the only way to get rid of
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  this, he says, anyway, the only way to change this is to
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  not go to the garbage. He said, we have to actively not use
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  the garbage. He said, it'll help, It'll help a lot. Haven't
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  we been actively not choosing the garbage for a while. There have been some
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  big time movies that were supposed to be huge hits that were massive flops.
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  Yes, simply because we knew ahead of time they were nothing but woke prop.
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  Again, Disney has been the most skilful shoving this stuff down our throats
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  and we are tired of it. And so you've seen it at the box
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  office. And at the same time the Christian movies, you see them being
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  elevated. Those are like smash hits. Yes, how a Sound of Freedom
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  the number one film? How did they do that with no budget? None?
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  You know the hardest part about that, Stephen, is we know that
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  a lot of the theaters they sabotaged. So all of these Christian movies,
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  like I remember one that Kirk Cameron did a couple of years ago, and
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  it was like one day only at the theater and the line's remember that ye,
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  And so now Sounds of Freedom. Sound of Freedom comes out and you
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  hear all of these stories about the air condition and went out in the theater
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  or the sound wouldn't They couldn't hear the sound, the audio was wrong or
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  the video was wrong. So they were putting it in their best theater.
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  Now they're trying to sabotage. And so you can make something so great and
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  you can still have those under pinings of evil that are trying to demolish it,
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  sabotage it, and it's steal is breaking records because people are like,
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  you know what, I'll stay in the heat. I don't need air.
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  I don't I pay for the game film. Yes, exactly, good film.
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  I think The Chosen is a great example of this. They were I
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  think they were the number three movie when when their film came out, but
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  it wasn't a film. They were showing episodes seven and eight of season three.
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  You had to pay for the movie theater to go see them, but
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  the very next day you could wash them on your phone for free. You
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  didn't have to sign up for Amazon, you have to sign up for anything.
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  It was absolutely free in your house on Roku or on iTunes or anything
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  tomorrow tomorrow it's free. And yet it was number three film in the in
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  the country because people went, I want to pay to see this today.
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  And guess what else. On top of that, people are paying for other
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  people to see it. It's like aving it forward. Yeah, to pay
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  it forward program. I know you have. I have two and somebody did
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  it for me. Like that was why how I was able to watch The
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  Chosen As somebody paid it forward, I got to watch it. Said,
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  of course I paid it for somebody else to see it. So it's like
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  everybody's finding a way, We're going to find a way, We're gonna find
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  a way to spread the word. I thought, this is I want to
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  know what you think about this. So it was pointed out that the culture
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  is fragmented into two distinct classes, the common underclass and the ruling elite.
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  Hollywood's firmly in the latter camp they are. How do you feel like this
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  fragmentation has played out among the American people. Do you think that they're actually
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  getting ahead or do you think that we're kind of like, even though we're
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  the under quote I'm doing air quotes, the underclassmen and they're the pious elites.
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  Yeah, how do you see this playing out generally? When you go
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  back in history, when the underclass starts to realize. Anywhere in history the
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  underclass realized that they are being treated as if they are underclass, it doesn't
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  work out well for the elites. What you really need is for the elites
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  to go we are actually one and the same, We're all part of the
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  same thing, and we all need to rise up, as Rond Reagan said,
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  or rising tide lifts all ships. But that's not what we currently have.
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  Well, we currently have the elites saying y'all need to shut up and
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  sit down, and that did not work well in the French Revolution. Right,
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  Oh, that's good. But we do have a little bit pieces talking
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  about fifty cents, Yeah, talking about that celebrity shaus. They am,
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  Yes, all of these you know, little Mark Wahlberg, right ice cube,
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  even like you have little glimpses of Hollywood going, reaching up, going,
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  Okay, I'm not a part of this. I'm going to be one
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  of the heroes that helps us get out of this. I feel like desk
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  Thank you so much, Thank you,