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Emmy-winning The Sopranos alum Drea de Matteo says that one of the reasons she opened an OnlyFans account in late August is because acting opportunities had dried up, due to her stance on workplace COVID vaccine mandates.
“Things have changed in the last three years…,” de Matteo detailed in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I didn’t know [that] all of a sudden … during a time I’m supposed to be relaxing a little bit, that I would have to switch careers and figure new things out because my own industry thinks I’m, you know, a savage.”
With that last word, de Matteo apparently was alluding to how she has been characterized after vocally opposing COVID vaccine mandates, including via social media posts.
“I guess you could say I was a bad girl because I did not follow the rules a couple of years ago,” she said. “I don’t want to be at the mercy of mandates or strike or anything like that ever again” — ergo the pivot to an OnlyFans account, and other new sources of income.
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, de Matteo has only filmed roles in a few small films, and reprised her role of Sons of Anarchy‘s Wendy in the final season of spinoff Mayans MC.
De Matteo told Fox News that her agent dropped her, and she “almost lost our home” due to the lack of acting work.
“People find that hard to believe that I was never really paid very much money for any of the jobs I’ve done,” de Matteo said. “I’ve worked job to job. And I’ve turned down tons of jobs in the past just to be with my children because their dad’s (musician Shooter Jennings) on the road, and he’s not around as much.”
Honestly, her OF isn’t that great. Not worth paying for
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But she is only doing it put herself through college.
Okay, you work in an industry that is built on people liking you. Then you do something people don’t like. So they don’t watch you and you don’t work. Then you complain because you don’t work. Then maybe don’t work in an industry built on that. All these people complaining about being “canceled”. That’s how its always been for actors. Just because you had one good job. Doesn’t mean you will ever work again.
That is exactly why “celebrities” should NOT use social media, or should at least keep accounts private. I grew up asking folks to STOP introducing me to celebs I had crushes on so I could go on living in my fantasy. 90% of the time, I took a dislike to that celeb the minute I got to know them in a social situation. Exceptions to that rule were rarer than I’d like to admit.
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Liking or disliking an actor SHOULD depend on how well they act, rather than who they are as a person, and with the exception of tabloids, it used to, pre-social media. It’s also why I do NOT follow celebs on social media. I loved John Cleese since the Monty Python days, but it only took about 10 minutes of following him on twitter to realize I liked him MUCH more as a performer than as a person.
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This is why I coined the term “TV Crush.” That means I have a crush on who they play, rather than at all indicating I have a crush on the actual person, whom I try to keep separate, due to my experience growing up.
fyi, you did not coin the term “TV crush”
How do you know I didn’t coin it? My Godfather was head of promotion for Screen Gems after all. Were you even alive before Screen Gems became Paramount?
John Cleese seems very likable in real life. You don’t like him bc he’s not a MAGA?. Most people who have a brain cell aren’t. I don’t know what else on Twitter you wouldn’t like from him bc he doesn’t support a party that’s racist, bigoted, misogynistic, narcissistic, homophobic, hypocritical and hateful? Sounds like a stand up guy. Also, just bc you’re old doesn’t mean you came up with “tv crush.”
You seem to want to bring politics into a discussion where politics are not involved. Cleese is a Brit, and who cares what his views on US Politics are? No, IRL, he’s a misogynistic ass, at least on his Twitter, and so I unfollowed him. But I also realize that many artists are asses, which is why I prefer to just respect their craft from a distance where I can remain blissfully ignorant about their often idiotic opinions on things that have nothing whatsoever to do with their craft.
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Watch the “Dominos Pizza” ep of Seinfeld, which was a statement on interjecting opinions into every aspect of their lives, done in an era before social media and meant to be a statement on the current “Domino’s donated to an anti-choice org” boycott that was a thing then. Maybe you can understand art by watching an artistic statement and actually understand
This actually goes for anyone, and it always has. Of course if you say or do something that others are against-you could lose out. You can take something like smoking. When restaurants and so forth said no more smoking, you would have people flipping out, some even trying to smoke anyways in these places. Guess what, people will avoid you, kick you out of the place, etc. Yes, we live in America, and you get to do a great many things that you cannot anywhere else. But that doesn’t mean you can do anything YOU want, and everyone will be ok with it. There will always be consequences to each and everything one does. Covid/vaccines was just one of the latest big things. And the term cancel-lol-all it is, are people fed up with others getting away with their behaviour. Boohoo you screwed the pooch, you pay for it.
She isn’t the problem. The intolerant people who can’t handle an opinion that differs from their own without throwing a tantrum and trying to cancel that person are the problem.
If people weren’t allowed to talk openly, having differing opinions, without consequences from no nothing judgemental jackasses, society never would have evolved. But then again, ever since social media and anti-bullying campaigns (which ironically have created more bullying), were put in place, they have caused society to devolve.
Victimization Alert. She’s acting as if it was OnlyFans or go broke and that’s not the case. She could’ve always diversified her income and invested in something like a business if possible to have another stream of income. She just needs to own that she wanted to go the ‘easy’ route and stop making excuses.
Or de Matteo could have asked her very close friend the Princess from Arizona, Meghan McCain, for a loan to tide her over. How many times has McCain droned on and on about Drea and Scooter Jennings singing at her wedding? Birds of a mildewed feather.
Hopefully she has learned she needs to keep her mouth shut when it comes to controversial issues when her job relies upon the public. If she hadn’t said anything about her stance then she might still be working. It amazes me how many public figures think they can run their mouth and have no consequences from it. I don’t really care which side of an issue someone’s on, if it’s controversial, and your livelihood, depends on the public, keep it to yourself.
So she’s an anti vaxxer… Well, not a big loss for the industry then
Boo hoo. Chronic stupidly has consequences. Hey Ho.
LOL
By her own admission she turned down a lot of jobs in the past, so did she expect the pipeline to continue to stay that full? Maybe casting agents just moved on to hotter names. Also, it sounds like she still worked, so it’s not like no one was hiring her. Regardless, I hope it works out for her. These days, most actors have multiple hustles (podcast, books, insta sponsorships. etc) so why not?
It’s called choices.
My office had a mandate. It put Me in control. I could follow the office rules or seek employment elsewhere. I’m glad they gave me the choice. Luckily, I agreed with the office policy and am celebrating my 23 year of employment.
Oh no it’s the consequences of your actions.
Some OF models do extremely well especially if they are a celebrity already. She may be making more with OF than she did with acting.
She’s like 55. She isn’t making anything.
I wonder if she’s heard of Colin Kaepernick?
I just don’t understand why people are so afraid to take the COVID-19 vaccine. My 26 year old nephew died from COVID because he thought it wouldn’t happen to him. When you see death totals in the millions here in the United States it should make you think about the possibility of death by not protecting yourself. If you are a public figure like Drea who refuses to get vaccinated it does shine a spotlight on her. I personally avoid anyone who says they refuse to get vaccinated. Whatever your reason for not getting vaccinated is bound to hurt you one way or another.
Hurry up and get your 8th booster then. Never stop taking boosters! Always trust Big Pharma
I love how these people really think they are martyrs we’ll rally around. The truth is that a lot of us are sick and tired of dealing with desperately precious overgrown babies who think the world revolves around them.
She’s an actress. She’s utterly replaceable.
Life is full of choices, good and bad. You made a bad choice by being in an industry where everything hinges on non-controversy (and looks). You poked the bear. Change your stance or move on from the industry.
“I was forced to work alone when no one wanted to be around me so they wouldn’t die”
What a whiner.
her telling this to foxfauxnews trying to get the anti-vaxx sympathy but news flash everyone at foxfauxnews got vaccinated to keep their jobs…..
She and others need to re-evaluate their selfish ignorant opinions about issues involving things like public health.
She crapped in her own nest.
And only has her own ignorance to blame.
Ignorance has consequences.
Yes you’re right it does have consequences, unless you’re a left leaning Democrat. Then you get away with everything, with no consequences at all. Just look at the mobster in charge of America. Head of a crime family, sohis singers away with everything. Even the FBI protects him. Just like the liberal leaning leftist media today. Get a brain and open your eyes!