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Has Hollywood ‘Made Itself Irrelevant’ to America? Roseanne Barr Says…

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Has Hollywood ‘Made Itself Irrelevant’ to America? Roseanne Barr Says…

By Movieguide® Contributor

Roseanne Barr believes Hollywood needs a change to become relevant again.

“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” said Barr, who ABC fired from THE ROSEANNE SHOW over a tweet she made in 2018.

“If they want to survive, they should work with the new president. American people elected him in an overwhelming victory,” Barr said. “They should get back in touch with [them] and make some money, which I don’t know if they do or not ’cause they’ve proven to be ideologues rather than [business people].”

“What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that,” she said.

Though Barr supports Trump, none of his administration accepted her invitation to appear on her podcast.

“The Trump administration regards me as a loose cannon, which I am,” she told Variety. “I’m not a party line person for anyone or anything except myself.”

“The Trump staff or whoever runs it, they’re a little afraid of me,” she said. “I am a loudmouth comedian, so I understand it. But it really hurt my feelings. But what are you gonna do?”

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The 72-year-old actress is ready to come back with a new show, a kind of mashup between THE ROSEANNE SHOW and THE SOPRANOS.

“It’s silly and out there,” Barr said. “[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm.”

“And they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism,” she said. “It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing.”

Her character isn’t a typical farmer — her produce includes cannabis and magic mushrooms. Barr wrote the show with ROSEANNE’s Allan Stephan, and she doesn’t care if Hollywood doesn’t like the series.

“If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself. Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America,” she said.

“I don’t give a **** either way,” she said. “I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another **** ****** network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC,” she said. “But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business. We’ll see. If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.”

After ABC fired Barr from her show, the network launched a spin-off, THE CONNERS. In the series, Roseanne’s character dies of suicide.

Barr said in 2023, “I can’t believe what they did, with all the pain that I went through to bring the show back. And it didn’t faze them to murder my character, either,” she said of those who worked on the show. “They **** on my contribution to television and the show itself.”

“But I forgive everybody. I started thinking that God took me out of there to save me. And once I started thinking that way, I was, like, a lot better off,” she explained.

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