Crew members quit Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE film after politics revealed
Everyone’s mad at Danny Trejo for signing on to Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie but now his son reveals how Shapiro’s team tricked an old man into doing this 😡
October the 31st be with you78Tricking old people is how right wingers get so politically powerful in the first place
MGT58Important context that Danny Trejo specifically is known for helping out young movie creators and appearing for very reasonable rates to boost their production. I would bet the farm this is a case of being punished for trying to do something good because he was lied to
Andrew27Breach the contract, let them sue an 82 year old. At that age you're not obligated to anyone.
Bacon!27Guess my issue here is what his agent doing?!? Shouldn't it be his job to figure out all this background information and protect Trejo?
Ron James25Trejo needs an agent and a lawyer to read his contracts.
The terrible secret of the coyote16So who is his agent? I think a lot of people just want to ask some questions.
Jessica Wranosky139This is elder abuse, and it needs to go to court.
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁8It's especially messed up to trick an actor who makes a moral point to not play a bad guy unless his character dies to compromise himself
Patrick Damp6Man that’s some real slimy shit. Can’t say I’m shocked though given the people involved.
Lizard5Assuming this is true, I am less disappointed by Trejo and even more angry at Shapiro.
Spook E. Peyote5This sucks but at least Danny Trejo gets out of the garbage pile?
This is Halloween 🎃3Doesn't surprise me as various right wing Christian productions have done the same thing to actors in the past. Cloud Ten famously tricked atheist Margot Kidder and actor Howie Mandel into starring in Apocalypse 3: Tribulation. And it's not just films, it's also documentaries.
Arctic Giantess3Oh shit, I think this was the movie filming in Livingston that everyone was mad about. I hope Danny Trejo liked Montana!
Theodore PainswoooOoOOOoorth2Literally could've told you this from day 0 on that news because Trejo is an 82 year old man who's living his dream. He is blissfully ignorant of the Internet. His participation wasn't a statement from him. He didn't know who was, and he was just booked by an equally oblivious agent.
PINKU (like ringu but pink eh you get it)2I mean I do believe him but he was also in that mr birchum store which is what causes doubts in me
Meramente protelatório 🚂2Interesssante ler a história, porque tem TUDO a ver com nossa eleição (ajuda saber que Danny Trejo é o Machete, aquele mexicano grandão com cara de bandido nos filmes do Tarantino e 2a. temporada de Breaking Bad)
Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas starring in a Ben Shapiro’s pro ICE propaganda film… Were retirement, poverty or seppuku not options? variety.com/2026/film/ne...
ctrl+alt+RESIST38Danny Trejo starring in a pro-ICE propaganda film. The man's entire catalog is guys the system failed. Now he's the system's mascot. Keitel survived decades of Scorsese and got finished off by Ben Shapiro. Henry Thomas peaked in 1982 and this is somehow his lowest.
C. McGuinn Freeman32A production that ran roughshod over Livingston MT, a town accustomed to movie productions, but not ones that were doing stunts on residential streets without notifying people, and that hired private security dudes to menace the rest of us. It's been an utter shitshow.
Gil Durán29I don't buy the story that Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas didn't know what they were getting into. You see, there's this thing called a "script," and I doubt an actor would accept a role without seeing it. A movie about ICE—controversial topic—is it pro or anti?
Hume's Ghost26Whatever his salary is is the price he's willing to sell his dignity for.
Dr Gina van Raphael26"Were retirement, poverty or seppuku not options?" Brilliant. Can I borrow this from you please? I could do with this in a few workshops/conferences.
NikNakOaktown20You would think someone in his immediate orbit would have checked him on this choice…
John Bleasdale53It’s time to ditch the idea Hollywood is a liberal cabal. It’s always been run by feral capitalists & most of its creatives strive for fame & money with no regard for social impact. Money makes them conservative. The fact u can name the liberals (Ruffalo & Sarandon) just proves how few there are
The ɅɅeech31i do think that by danny's age and the sheer number of films both great and godawful he's been in, there's probably not much that immediately pegs his radar about this production being any more questionable than some of the others
Cynthia Gómez13Man, and I liked Danny Trejo. Fuck him.
Niels11RIP Harvey Keitel & Danny Trejo: das war’s dann wohl mit euch
Doug Savage, Rebel Alliance Attorney9It’s so funny to hear that the justification to being in Ben Shapiro’s love letter to ICE is that Danny gets to be a military boot boy that will protect the ICE agents in Ben Shapiro’s love letter to ICE.
Fishmaster Cathulhu ⭐9die nächste logische folge von cop movies: ICE- cop movies. ice, also nicht der zu spät kommende zug, sondern die faschos ohne grenzen die leute überfahren und erschießen und ohne Prozess in Gefängnisse stecken, diese ICE
Carlie St. George3This is so intensely disappointing. And the plot description for this movie? JFC. 😡😡😡
Theoretical Fox!3Not surprised, he's been working with the DailyWire for 2 years now, and the amount of people who don't know this kinda tells you how much of a nothing burger the dailywire is culturally
Cerberus Rex 🇿🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸2Yeah, nothing screams 'pro-immigrant' and 'standing up for your community' than starring in a pro-gestapo movie that portrays your community as rabid anti-law mob intent on meting out revenge on a poor, innocent ICE member.... And Keitel? WTF dude? Retirement would have been a far better option.
Cervantes Xavier 🇨🇦2Wow, so Danny Trejo is a little bitch then, eh? Yeah bud, I'm sure the "positive depiction of a Latino character" totally offsets the rampant pro-ICE fascist message of the movie. Good job, Machete. You'll forever be known as "the guy who blew 41 years of goodwill for 1 shitty gig".
Exactly as predicted: Elder abuse. This is from Danny Trejo’s son, Gilbert Trejo. Not only did Ben Shapiro’s camp trick the elder Trejo about what the movie really was, he apparently signed a contract barring him from even putting out a statement about it.
Joe Gordon8I’d call that predatory bullshit (more or less typical for the industry, alas, and doesn’t have to be allowed) and not what I thought of when you said elder abuse. Glad his family isn’t harming him.
Ancom Anthony 🚩🏴4Didn't he already play the "based conservative" Mexican best friend in Mr Birchum several years ago for the daily wire? I feel like he should know what they are by now
maraleia2He did another Ben Shapiro production before. This is on him.
kstrand.bsky.social1Clarifications like this are critical these days. Shapiro is a sleeze-bag, always has been.
Adding alt text to this message to make it more accessible for people who use screen readers. It's an Instagram story from Danny Trejo's daughter, about his involvement in that Daily Wire-produced film. The short story is that according to him, he was duped into it and is now trapped under contract.
Antlers Teeth Claws3Given Trejo's past projects & statements, I'm willing to believe this. Especially given how Shapiro operates. Still, I won't see it at all. Hope going forward, Trejo has a good lawyer nitpick every single contract to avoid shit like this & people like Shapiro.
OuttaMyLaine2The people Iin the upper echelons of the MAGA and White Nationalist political ecosystem in this country are all predators of one type or another.
For those burning Danny Trejo for being in a shapiro led pro-ice film, he was duped into and had already signed contracts before finding out what the movie actually was shredding his contract could see him sued into oblivion and blacklisted by the industry it's a fucked situation
Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf16This sounds like I expected happened to him tbh, the dude has always famously had big morals around the types of roles he played
Dai Wolf12(also noticing a lot of those immediately dropping him without finding out what happened are even whiter than I am...)
PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected]4Isn't this the guy that famously only agreed to play villains if they died horribly so that young people wouldn't see them as inspiration or am I confused? He doesn't sound like he'd sign up for a pro ICE film.
Ade3To say I'm pissed would be an understatement.
It's looking even more like most of the people who worked on that Ben Shapiro film, from the crew to the cast, were taken advantage of or not aware of what it was actually about.
Mathew Buck30If that was the case, they certainly didn't get a look at that frankly unreadable script, which is more of a screed than a screenplay. And several people need new agents.
Killbo Fraggins1That would actually explain a lot. Trejo has a history of accepting damn near any role, but he isn't someone to back something like this as a rule.
Lexabrö1I may be misremembering, but didn't The Daily Wire get caught doing this on an earlier film too?
Toyland of the Remembered1This shit sounds like how they got the actors in Inchon to be involved with that film.
Apparently being lied to about being in a Ben Shapiro related project is common Run, Hide, Fight didn't start as a Daily Wire film, but anyone dragged in like Jayce here is basically being forcibly tied to a shitweasel despite doing nothing wrong.
Daniel O'Connell4Shitweasel is a fitting description for Benny boy. I’m hoping that the Daily Wire tanks and tanks hard, and takes the careers of Ben and his other scumfuck associates.
Dank Blitzwing (#FreePalestine🇵🇸)4It is as I suspected. They most likely lured Jonathan Majors too, with the promise of revitalizing his career, because I don't see how he would willingly agree to be part of such filth.
Jayce4Thank you for sharing what I went through Idk if what I said will get me in legal trouble and I really hope it doesn’t because I can’t afford it at all and it will be real shitty if I do This movie is disgusting and awful. I will tho continue my acting and voice acting career as well
(w / alt text) Phew 😮💨 I’m glad they wrote this. But Trejo’s agent fucked him. Or manager, or both. It’s exactly their job to tell you who is involved in a film.
John Sibley13Lol. He’d already done a cartoon series for Shapiro a few years ago. He knew.
Sippy Spoopy Psycho7I'm getting really tired of the right lying and clearly fucking people over with no consequences. This is not even ideological. You don't trick people into working for you, that's just lying and being a dishonest piece of shit.
The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King5Shapiro being a conman and Trejo not knowing who he is absolutely passes the smell test. There's no way Danny's online enough to clock that fascist chipmunk
Prince Luffy 👑🗑️🎙️5I feel mixed. I could believe that it's possible to be duped like this but I also can't help but wonder if this is just damage control ykwim? Though I find it questionable because he was on other Wired productions like Mr Birchum.
my_random_name2Okay …. Damn that is an amazing contract … Is there anything preventing him from PUBLICLY firing his agent and or manager? Even if the specific details cannot be revealed.
Tim2I know Danny’s agent. I’ve known her for over thirty years. I’m shocked that she would allow this to happen. She was always liberal. If she is okay with working with Shapiro then she’s made an abrupt turn. That would be very disappointing.
