View original postAt least, for the 'leftism' in the sense of being sympathetic to minorities and open-minded about social change of various kinds. As an actor, 'put yourself in someone else's shoes' is basically your day job - if you manage to escape getting typecasted too much, you're expected during your career to act in a variety of roles, a variety of characters who all have different backgrounds and opinions. Of course you can do all that and still have so-called 'conservative' views on other topics such as the economy, but a certain level of open-mindedness and empathy for the poor is rather natural in actors, I'd say.

View original postIs it? How many cases do you know in American sports of people who play well for a season or two, get an extremely lucrative contract, and then fade into insignificance while still getting paid the same until the contract runs out? In Hollywood that's a lot harder to do.