Actors entire existence is predicated on parroting other peoples’ words and faking emotions. They also tend not to be terribly intelligent or well educated. Seriously, check the CVs of most actors: they’re generally lucky to have finished even the softest of degrees. Most of them flunked out of even fairy-floss like drama and dance. Anthony Hopkins is a rare bird who is honest enough to confess that “Actors are pretty stupid.”
Having been a music journalist in years past, I can also attend that most musicians are, if anything, even dumber. Sure, not all: some are pretty bright. But most struggle to tie their shoelaces together.
So, why do these boxes-of-rocks think that the world is constantly, breathlessly, awaiting their* opinions on everything, including who to vote for? (*I say “their”, even though, as opinionated rocker Ted Nugent says, most of them are terrified of saying anything other than what they think they’re supposed to say.)
Then they wonder why their movies and TV shows tank and almost nobody bothers to watch their backslapping circle-jerk awards nights.
Thankfully, there are a few overpaid performing monkeys who realise that their only job is to do their little dance and keep their gobs shut. Anthony Hopkins bluntly stated that, “My opinion is not worth anything.”
Goldie Hawn made a career out of playing ditzy blondes, but she may be a lot smarter than many of her big-mouthed peers.
The 76-year-old actress has lived virtually her entire life in the spotlight but never commented on her political views – something that many of her fellow Hollywood actors don’t hesitate to do.
Her husband of near-40 years, Kurt Russell, is similarly close-mouthed. Russell is generally supposed to be of a libertarian bent, but has famously rejected being drawn too far on his politics. “I’m a court jester. That’s what I was born to do.”
During a recent interview for SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Goldie Hawn explained why she tries to keep politics to herself.
The discussion started when the host Megyn Kelly bashed out:
“I think it’s why it drives people crazy when Hollywood tries to act holier than thou and starts lecturing middle America about morality and so on. And you know, these people sitting in Iowa who have never done any… they’ve never tried to put someone on a casting couch,” said Kelly. “They’re like, you could save your lectures for somebody else.”
Showing rare discretion for a celebrity, Hawn chose not to rise to the bait.
“I stay in my lane,” the Academy Award-winning actress said.
Her “lane”, as per Russell’s “court jester” characterisation, is simply: entertainment.
“I think we entertain. I think we bring awareness to people, just of their ability to laugh, to have joy, to experience it, to cry. We are emotional beings and create emotion in others. And it’s in this case, I think we’re in service.”
That doesn’t mean that Hawn doesn’t have causes she believes in. But they’re personal ones, and, most importantly, she clearly believes, as AC/DC’s Brian Johnson famously said, “It makes me mad when people try to use politics or charity for publicity. Do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done.”
For years, Hawn has helped others try and understand the importance of a good mental health and how one might improve it. She’s especially focused on children through her mental health organization MindUp.
MindUp provides material for both teachers and families to help children understand how they really feel. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Hawn says this has been very important […]
“Today, we are in the midst of a national trauma that could very well surpass 9/11 and approach the heightened terror of the Cold War years,” Hawn writes in USA Today. “The Covid era has changed our children’s lives in far more real, tangible ways – social distancing, school closures, daily mask use.”
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Whatever you may choose to read politically into that, it’s beyond dispute that Covid policies have inflicted a terrible mental health toll on children. Goldie Hawn is, admirably, doing what well-heeled celebrities should: entertain, and quietly do something to pay back the people who’ve given them such a privileged lifestyle.