Truth is kryptonite to the left, says Christian actor Kevin Sorbo, who wants to bring conservative values back to Hollywood

Famed Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo knows firsthand how difficult it is to be a Christian in Hollywood.

But he refuses to beat around the bush when it comes to truth.

In an interview with Chris and Christine Stigall, hosts of the Making the Leap podcast, Sorbo called himself the grandfather of cancel culture.

“[Hollywood said] ‘we can’t work with you anymore,’ because God forbid we have truth in our movies and in our industry,” Sorbo recalled. “Truth is like kryptonite to the people on the left.”

Once, Netflix even contacted him to discuss starting an “inspirational division” of films but couldn’t tolerate Sorbo’s conservative beliefs.

“It’s amazing to me that this birth of ideology that you have is hatred and anger toward anybody who’s conservative or anybody who’s a Christian,” he recalled telling Netflix. “You guys will just do anything to attack that.” 

He thinks a lot of people – even Netflix employees – agree with him but are too afraid to speak out.  

But that isn’t stopping Sorbo, who is still making movies – the types of movies he likes.  

“I’m going to fight back [by] doing movies that Hollywood used to do,” he told the Stigalls. “I enjoy doing movies that have hope in them, that have freedom in them, that have character development, and aren’t just films with 75% visual effects.”  

One of his most recent ventures, Miracle in East Texas, won several awards for telling the true story of two swindlers who scammed widows into supporting fake oil wells. 

Sorbo has also published a book, The Test of Lionhood, about godly masculinity.  

And as a parent, he’s concerned about the declining state of education.  

“When I was in public schools, if you were a math teacher, you taught math. If you’re an economics teacher, you taught economics,” Sorbo told the Stigalls. “They’re not doing that anymore. They’re pushing this weird agenda on these kids that’s just strange. It’s a total brainwashing thing and it’s got to end.” 

“Anything run by the government doesn’t work very well anyway,” he added. “[So] we jumped on board [homeschooling] right away.” 

All three of Sorbo’s children are homeschooled and he’s excited about the movement’s newfound traction.  

“One of the blessings of COVID was that two million more families are now homeschooling,” he said. 

The Making the Leap podcast is produced by The Herzog Foundation, which also publishes The Lion.