After beforehand saying that he felt blacklisted by Hollywood due to his support for President Donald Trump that started in 2015, Robert Davi this week said he feels like it’s persevering with “to some extent.”
“It’s still ongoing, but it might be lightening up, I think,” the “Die Hard” actor instructed Raymond Arroyo on his “Arroyo Grande” podcast. “I don’t know, and it’s among certain elements of the industry. In other words, you’ll never know exactly where the button gets pushed.”
Davi said many occasions his supervisor will inform him someone is in him for a project, then it doesn’t come through because he suspects “it goes up the flagpole to somebody and then, all of a sudden, it gets wiped out, but it absolutely is because there’s no reason for it.”
But, he said there’s no means of gauging how many initiatives he’s lost because of his political leanings, particularly since he knows there’s some he never even hears about.
He also revealed that he was twice requested to endorse liberal candidates.
“In 2016, some execs came to me and said, ‘Hey, if you now support so-and-so, name your ticket, and that happened twice, two different elections,” he said, but his fast reply was “Why would I do that?”
Robert Davi, who has said he was blacklisted by Hollywood for supporting President Donald Trump since 2015, said this week he feels it is still taking place “to some extent.” Fox News
An outspoken conservative, Davi said he gets annoyed with “closeted” conservatives in the industry.
“If they — and there’s some powerful ones — and if they did come forward, if they had the courage to come forward, it would help many others that are closeted,” he said.
Davi added that people come up to him all the time to inform him that they comply with him on social media, and thank him for what he’s been saying.
Invoking Frank Sinatra, he said that if the Rat Pack crooner appreciated someone, “they had a little bit of influence” because of their connection to him.
President Trump honors the NHL Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers, at the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 15, 2026. REUTERS
Davi said there’s no means of realizing how many alternatives he’s missed out on because of his political leanings. Getty Images
“So celebrities do have — even though they want to say celebrities have no [influence], they do. They have some kind of effect on the younger generation, in people that are influenced,” he continued.
The “Goonies” actor said he felt if he stayed quiet about his views, “there’s going to be people out there that are going to feel even more isolated.”
Even if followers come up to him and say they loved his work but are now disillusioned in his political leanings, he instructed Arroyo that he explains to them his views don’t change the work he’s carried out.
“As opposite ends of the spectrum as I am to Robert De Niro, I’ll go see a film that he’s in,” he revealed. “I won’t not go see a film,” he defined, including that his daughter had them watching De Niro’s 2009 film “Everybody’s Fine” over the holidays, which he said has a “terrific message.”
He joked as he was watching the movie he thought, “I forgive him.”
