Hollywood actor slams lack of ‘manly’ men in industry today – and takes aim at Timothée Chalamet-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro

Hercules star Kevin Sorbo wants to ‘make Hollywood manly again’ (Picture: Getty)

Kevin Sorbo, best known for playing Hercules on TV in the 1990s, took aim at the lack of ‘manly’ men in the current movie and TV industry.

The American actor and producer, 65, also made his name as part of the US science fiction TV series Andromeda, which ran between 2000 and 2005.

Sorbo, who last month claimed he’d been shut out of Hollywood due to his conservative viewpoints, wrote an essay about a ‘masculinity crisis’.

Taking shots at actors and performers Timothée Chalamet and Billy Porter, Sorbo compared them unfavourably to his portrayal of the muscle-bound Greek god.

‘It doesn’t really matter what end of the masculinity spectrum you fall on – if you’re a victim to your own base desires, the feminist culture has won,’ he said.

He continued: ‘You’re exactly the kind of wussy man they (think they) want you to be. Society today seriously misunderstands masculinity.’

Kevin took shots atTimothée Chalamet and Billy Porter (Picture: Channel 5)

‘We love to normalise androgynous, Billy Porter-type men [in skirts]. Chalamet wears clothes that your grandfather wouldn’t have been caught dead in.’

‘Everywhere we look, bold, confident, self-assured females upstage passive men who recede quietly into the background,’ he wrote for Fox News.

Sorbo also focused on ‘fathers, in particular’ on TV and in films, claiming they’d ‘become the butt of every woke Hollywood jab’ in recent years.

Kevin wants more ‘warriors’ on TV (Picture: WireImage)

Timothée turned heads at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 (Picture: Getty)

Well we think Billy looks fabulous, so… (Picture: WireImage)

He then said that America needs more male warriors and protectors who put their family first, before calling for Hollywood to be ‘made manly again.’

Speaking about his fashion choices, Billy said in 2021: ‘I feel like the fashion industry has accepted me because they have to. I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion].’

Meanwhile, Dune 2 star Timothée’s choice to go backless was hailed by his fans on social media, with some calling him the ‘most special sexy man alive’.

This latest column comes after Sorbo suggested that the 2020 presidential election election in the United States was affected by voter fraud to oust Donald Trump.

He said: ‘I never see people driving around with Biden flags, someone want to explain how this guy who couldn’t fill a high school auditorium is leading currently?’

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