Drea de Matteo by no means was once specifically political. Her most effective partisan remark got here by the use of a 2010 tune video she directed for Shooter Jenning’s “Summer season of Rage” — a not-so-subtle jab on the Bush-Cheney management’s ever-churning struggle gadget. In 2020, she voted for the primary time in her existence within the presidential election, casting her poll for Joe Biden in his bid to switch Donald Trump within the White Space. Then, because the COVID pandemic entered its 2nd 12 months, the whole lot got here crashing down for “The Sopranos” actress whose Adriana Los angeles Cerva supplied the only real moral sense in a sea of ethical degenerates.

“I’m a hippie. I didn’t need to get the vaccine. I sought after to attend it out to peer what the end result was once,” she says.

Her circle of relatives avoided her for being anti-vax. She become character non grata a number of the Hollywood set. And her agent, who she thought to be a pal, dropped her.

“And not using a telephone name or an electronic mail. Simply advised me via my supervisor, and that was once that. I couldn’t paintings anymore,” she provides. “To be demonized over a scientific preference after they stay screaming, ‘Professional preference,’ I’m like, ‘Do you guys listen yourselves?’”

Dealing with monetary wreck, the only mom of 2 introduced an OnlyFans web page “simply to avoid wasting my house” and started to reevaluate her politics, or lack thereof. “I used to be on my own. After which I began to make new buddies who felt the similar means,” she continues. Thus started a change that now unearths de Matteo amongst a small staff of Hollywood’s vocal Trump supporters — a faction that comes with Dennis Quaid, Rob Schneider and Zachary Levi. And he or she isn’t the one Emmy-winning actresses to again the polarizing 45^th president, with Rosanne Barr additionally being proudly MAGA.

In this fall afternoon, on eve of a presidential election this is too as regards to name, the Queens local is bracing for civil unrest without reference to the end result.

“I’ve other folks coming to measure my space for gates. For the apocalypse,” she explains as she rocks from side to side again in a swivel chair in her Laurel Canyon house. She’s carrying denims and a black T-shirt emblazoned with a gadget gun from her Ultrafree streetwear line, which she introduced previous this 12 months with boyfriend Robby Staebler, drummer for UVWAYS (previously All Them Witches). She adjusts a couple of outsized rose-tinted glasses and prepares to move scorched earth with Hollywood’s Trump-is-a-fascist crowd.

“I’m sorry, however is Sean Penn a CIA asset at this level?” she asks, noting the actor’s eyebrow-raising interview with El Chapo for a 2016 Rolling Stone article that was once adopted by means of the Mexican drug lord’s seize days later. “I’m so upset in him. I don’t even know that I will be able to watch him as an actor anymore. When he introduced that Oscar to [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy in Ukraine, I used to be mortified. Zelenskyy is aligned with the Azov Battalion, and everybody’s crying about racism and this and that. It’s like, ‘Get up The usa.’” (The Azov Brigade has drawn complaint for its neo-Nazi ideology and use of arguable symbols related to Nazism.)

She’s simply warming up as she strikes directly to Hollywood’s Kamala Harris supporters who constitute each ends of the age spectrum.

“You could have like Billie Eilish announcing, ‘I think more secure with Kamala as president.’ However why? As a result of you’ve got six safety guards round you each day whilst you stroll down the road,” she taunts. “My daughter has no one strolling round along with her when she walks down the road in New York Town. As a result of I see what’s happening. And even right here in California, my youngsters aren’t allowed to move any place on account of how unhealthy crime is at the moment.”

Then she strikes directly to some of the leisure trade’s maximum dependable Democratic Celebration voices.

“I’m having a look at Bette Midler speaking about reproductive rights advert nauseam,” she says. “They’re apprehensive about this factor. Once we’re on the point of global struggle, you need to discuss your daughters? What concerning the boys? What about our sons which can be going to have to move off to struggle in the future. They usually need to take your daughters, too.”

Regardless of her make stronger for a president who appointed 3 Preferrred Court docket justices that helped overturn Roe v. Wade, de Matteo says she is pro-choice.

“My great-grandmother was once the one abortionist in Fifties Harlem. I’m any person who’s had two abortions. I’m nonetheless pro-choice,” she notes. “However issues have long past up to now within the pro-choice path that it become form of an aberration of the rights that ladies have fought for, the place the ones rights now not even look like human rights. It kind of feels like an time table and an ideology that doesn’t paintings in anyone’s desire.”

If de Matteo’s politics are complicated, she is fast to indicate that so are the perspectives of her Hollywood brethren who as soon as reviled Dick Cheney. The previous vice chairman recommended Harris in September, prompting the Democratic candidate to mention she was once “venerated” to get Cheney’s backing.

“Each and every time a celeb endorses her, I reiterate that they stand with Dick Cheney,” she notes.

De Matteo is aware of that voicing those perspectives is an act of self-immolation in the case of her long run movie and TV possibilities. Males would possibly get a go. In any case, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight nonetheless paintings lots. Quaid almost definitely will proceed to seek out himself in call for. There’s now not as transparent a trail for go back for MAGA girls. However de Matteo doesn’t care.

Even prior to COVID, she was once pulling clear of the trade. After operating on arguably the best TV collection of all time, de Matteo couldn’t best that have. And regardless that she persisted to paintings on such presentations as “Sons of Anarchy” and “Determined Housewives,” she become extra selective, particularly if a undertaking supposed she must go away house for prolonged classes.

“I used to be presented some Wonder factor, and I grew to become that down as a result of my son was once crying each and every time I’d cross to Canada to simply visitor famous person on one thing,” she remembers. “And I used to be like, ‘Fuck it. I’m now not gonna do it. I afford to get us throughout the wintry weather.’ I don’t need to be this Hermes-toting, Gucci shoe-wearing particular person. I simply didn’t give a shit. I imply, I put on sweatpants and T-shirts all day.”

Her fall from grace in Hollywood coincides with a brand new occupation trail in style. She began Ultrafree to advertise loose speech and take a swipe at a established order she loathes. The T-shirts characteristic words like “Battle System” and “thanks for remembering the intimate main points of my places and conversations giant tech.” She’s additionally based a jewellery assortment referred to as Tombstone that leans into the mob spouse aesthetic that she pioneered on “The Sopranos.” Both means, she’s making sufficient cash to find the money for a savvy publicist and is keen to be noticed on the Trump rally in Coachella (she applauds the Republican candidate’s “anti-establishment” pressure) or the Rescue the Republic accumulating in Washington, D.C., the place two of her favorites — Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — took the degree. And prefer Penn, who went on Fox Information to make his Ukraine case on Sean Hannity’s display, de Matteo sparked headlines when she joined “Jesse Waters Primetime” to return out as pro-Trump.

“I attempted now not to be outspoken. I attempted to be beneath the radar. However I joined OnlyFans to avoid wasting my fucking space. And it was once more or less, in a peculiar means, a political remark. Like a large ‘fuck it.’ Get relaxed being uncomfortable. That was once my remark,” she says.

And in a marvel twist, her circle of relatives has come round, no less than in relation to her OnlyFans foray (she stays at the subscription provider the place content material creators can reap giant paydays for attractive or particular content material).

“[During the pandemic], my brother was once like, ‘You realize, you’re risking everybody in your house’s existence at the moment [by not being vaccinated].’ After which years later, after I ended up having to open up an OnlyFans web page simply to avoid wasting my house, as a result of no one would assist me at the moment as a result of I didn’t ‘do the correct factor,’ he was once like, ‘Your frame, your preference. I’m with you all of the means,’” she says and rolls her eyes.

As her appointment with the gate set up workforce nears, she stresses one ultimate level: Even in a forged blue trade like Hollywood, she insists that she isn’t an outlier on account of her perspectives. She is an outlier as a result of she’s going to specific them out loud.

“The folk I’m round, a large number of liberals are vote casting for Trump. I believe part of Hollywood is in fact vote casting for Trump,” she says. “I do know that I’ve gotten a number of messages in my Inbox: ‘Thanks for announcing issues I will be able to’t say.’”