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Kevin Sorbo opens up about being blacklisted by Hollywood for his Christian faith and conservative views — and why he has absolutely no regrets.

Very few actors are as vocal about being abused for their faith and political views as Kevin Sorbo.

The Hercules and Andromeda headlining actor hasn’t been involved in the silver screen scene for years. The reason for this? His agents were told to ditch him.

To cut a long story short, Hollywood cancelled Sorbo because he refused to self-censor.

A committed Christian, both he and his wife, Sam, refused to sell their souls, and “Hollywoke” slammed the doors shut on them for doing so.

Unpacking the reasons in a quick timeline shared with Gabriella Power on Sky News, Sorbo said, “I think Hollywood changed.”

“I was always public with my faith. I never hid it.”

“They just changed everything they did.”

“It was about 10 to 12 years ago,” he added, “when things really started shifting, and my manager and agent called me in and said, ‘We can’t work with you anymore.’”

“’The studios don’t want to work with you anymore.’ I said, ‘Why?’ ‘Well, the things you’re posting on the internet.’”

“You mean the truth,” Sorbo quipped back.

He then told Sky News, “As you know, people on the Left have real trouble with the truth.”

“They don’t like anything that is factual. They like to live in a fantasy world, and Hollywood loves to lead the way in that.”

Sorbo Studios: Building Something New

Instead of allowing themselves to be blown into oblivion, Sorbo said, he and Sam founded Sorbo Studios.

“I’ve been averaging about four movies a year,” he said.

“In fact, I gotta really big one coming out here in America on October 2nd. I hope it makes it Down Under. It’s called The Flood.”

Despite the establishment’s culture war on Christians, Sorbo is still working.

Noting the special nature of his circumstances, given the rampant Marxian Woke discrimination against Christians and conservatives from within the industry, he said, “I’ve been very blessed to keep on working.”

The father of three illustrated his courage in the face of cancel culture by telling the TODAY show in 2024,

“I can’t be the only conservative in Hollywood. I know I’m not the only Christian in Hollywood.”

“I guess I was too vocal for them.”

He fired back at the blacklisting, saying, “You’re the industry that screams for tolerance.”

Hollywood, as we all know, is very hypocritical. Tolerance is a one-way street.”

That’s sad, he added, “because I don’t harbour the same kind of anger and hatred.”

Asked if he had any regrets, he answered, “No”.

“I spoke the truth. I know a lot of people don’t like the truth.”

During the interview, Sorbo also shared a love of Australians, saying he had once lived in Sydney for eight months.

Netflix’s Faith-Based Fumble

The uncancellable actor was even approached by Netflix in 2018 with a proposal to open an inspirational division.

He was completely on board.

“I had four meetings with them over four months, and each meeting, I could tell that this was just lip service.”

“It was weird.”

Sorbo recalled the interaction in a 7 August sit-down with CBN last year.

After initialising contact with the idea, Netflix ended up walking away because the content had “God in it.”

At the last meeting he had with the streaming company, Sorbo said Netflix nixing their own idea came down to their ideology and hatred towards the Christian and conservative community.

Sorbo pointed out that the company essentially walked away from an 80 million home market that wants faith-based, quality content films.

This prompted him to ask Netflix, “What is wrong with you guys?”

The memory of exchange lives large.

In March, he took to X, telling people: “Cancel your Netflix subscription.”

Revisiting the bizarre experience in April, Sorbo dropped another post, stating,

“Years ago, after my movie Let There Be Light was released, Netflix called me into their studios in Los Angeles to have a meeting.”

“I distinctly remember sitting down with the executives and discussing the possibility of having my faith-based movies on their platform.”

“I’ll never forget the last thing they said to me before the meeting ended.”

“We understand that there’s an audience for this kind of content, but we don’t understand why.”

“These people,” Sorbo concluded, “do not have your best interest at heart.”