How Brett Cooper Became a Young Conservative Actress Based in Los Angeles...And the Blowback She Got

how did you wind up more conservative to the point where you would say it out loud in La my mother my mother is incredible uh I was not raised in a political home by any means we never discussed politics we never discussed current events I'm not really interested in hard politics or DC that was never part of my upbringing she is very values based and so we had a lot of conversations about what our family values you know personal responsibility Independence was huge and those were the discussions that we had at our dinner tables and when things would come up in my life whether it were was friends or in scripts that I was reading I honestly think that that is where the majority of my value education came from is because from age eight years old I was being given scripts for auditions and projects that I was working on and we would always discuss what is the meaning of the script what is the writer trying to convey to audiences do you agree with this what do you think the character is trying to say those are things that you need to know as an actor but my mom wanted to make sure that I never just fully lost myself in these characters and so she was like how is that different than what we believe than what you believe what is she what is this character trying to say to the world and by articulating that and identifying it I was able to go oh that does not make sense that's not actually something that I want to put out into the world and I think that was one of the reasons why I really took a step back from acting while I was in college because I felt so conflicted because I would read these scripts and say I don't want that out in the world like I feel bad playing this character I would turn down scripts all the time that had nudity you know for characters that are like 16 years old you're not going to the mech Gala anytime no I am not um but I I I thought very consciously about all that so that was constant conversations in my home and when Co started happening I was faced with a lot of anger and hatred from Friends uh in college that I did not expect these were friends that were my you know closest friends was about to live with in the next year I was in a sorority and all of that kind of blew up in my face and I realiz oh my gosh I disagree with all of you and I knew that and I was okay with it and we were close friends and I spent hours upon hours was going to live with you and suddenly you hate me and are basically threatening me and are throwing you know communist manifestos at my head at parties um calling me a racist for that true I mean true were they really getting after you yes I walked into a party at UCLA at one point and simply because I was from Tennessee and because we had had a conversation where we were talking about the primaries in January of 2020 and I said no I'm not going to vote in the primaries for Biden and then they oh here you know are you going to vote for Bernie I was like no I'm actually I'm actually not going to do either secret option number three yeah oh and that next week I walked into a party and one of them stood up on a table and said there's our racist friend Brett from Tennessee no yeah and I was just and so everything and then Co happened and Co for me in terms of my education and my Social Circles and everything else in my life it was a blessing and disguise obviously the way it turned out for the world was awful but I think that it gave me a lot of distance it forced me to reflect a lot about the people that I was surrounding myself with the industry that I was in it pulled me out of an education an educational environment that I think was very difficult for me to survive in you know how the left always uses the word toxic it's toxic you know they make it toxic for they do they do they do and so you know I moved home I was doing all of my classes online I made the most of it I did you know a business program I started for the elsat I started making these videos for prageru and Young Americans for Liberty like I really really leaned in it's like if I was going to put myself out there because I I knew what it felt like to be so alienated to not see my values represented anywhere in my circles in my industry online on social media I was like I have for your age group for your age group that's the thing that's special about you it's like if if 22-year-olds want to get conservative commentary they can get it anywhere but H not necessarily from from a really smart 22-year-old young woman yeah I did not see the kind of content that I'm creating now and that is why I was so passionate about I think that's also why it took off so quickly is because I was filling a niche that I personally cared so much about that I knew I wanted to exist in the world because coming up somebody that was more right-wing that had Traditional Values valued common sense like I would listen to you know I would listen to Dennis Prager I would listen to Matt walshan Michael nolles and Candace and I would listen to Larry Elder my mom is obsessed with Larry Elder he brilliant he is yeah and so we would listen to him on car rides and Rush Limba but nobody was my age and then I would go on to YouTube and social media and I would watch all these people that I love and follow and now I want style inspiration from you and I love this actor but then I would listen to you know the Vanity Fair round tables and go I disagree with literally everything you're saying even though you're my age so I want wanted to fill that Gap so what's I mean when you look around your age group um what's happening with young women because what my impression from you know way over on the other side is everyone's naked everyone's getting enormous boobs and enormous butts they're having all his fat sucked out of their waist to try to make it look like some sort of a weird you know character anime character did you see Kim Kardashian at the maala there's something seriously wrong with that person it's crazy I like I don't understand what I really think she might have had ribs removed I don't get it I don't like it and I don't like what Mage IT projects I don't like the beauty message that entire family projects um but you wound up okay because you had good parents I know my kids are going to wind up okay they have good parents so I don't want to blame it all on them but when you look around your generation like what do you see women young women doing and wanting I think young women are just lying to themselves I think we've been lied to by Society we've been lied to by the Kardashian type figures that have given us beauty standards that are completely unrealistic that have told us that the ideal is to be plas that you need to change everything about yourself to be desirable not just to men but to the world whether that is Botox or lip fillers have you seen that young women in my age are now getting Botox because it's preventative 22y old 22y old 21y old 18-year-old it is a huge huge thing it's like it's preventative you won't have wrinkles later on in life it's like you are this is the most ridiculous ridiculous thing obviously you want to do it later in life you know that's your prerogative but at 21 years old you're lit no it's not but they have been told that that is their ideal and I think a lot of the pressure then comes from women because there other women start to do it than younger women on social media St and think that that is what they need to Aspire to can I tell you I just quick I want you to finish but this is why remember when Dolly Parton performed at was at the Super Bowl and she came out and she it wasn't the Super Bowl it was like maybe Country Music Awards anyway she had a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader outfit on and I think she's 77 years old or maybe even older and I found it both inspirational and depressing yes you know what I mean like it's great I love do everybody loves Dolly she looked so great but then I also kind of missed the days where women were just allowed to age didn't have to try to look 22 when we were 82 and that would be fine that's that beauty standard did change and you were judged accordingly you didn't have to be in a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader exactly yeah no but I think that a lot of that has pushed women in you know a wrong and dangerous Direction I also think that Society has been telling them for years that hookup culture is good and you don't need to be married I mean I think of like the 2016 Hillary Clinton era feminism and this uh Cheryl sanberg lean in and girl bossing like that took off in the mid 2010 and push them in this direction and now 10 years later they're going I'm not I'm not happy I'm single I'm in my 30s I have distanced myself from my family I have given myself over to this corporate career which is ironic because they sit online and say that they hate the man they hate the patriarchy they hate capitalism and yet the one thing that they dedicate their life to is sitting in a cubicle and being a girl boss for meta or Google or whatever you want to say um and so I think that women number one have been lied to but then they've made the choice to lie to themselves and say no I'm happy I'm happy being sing I'm happy hooking up every night and having no commitments and I think that they're waking up cuz obviously that is not what we are you know wired to do and you know I see it every day I see you know my female audience grow the most important thing to me is when I meet women you know out just when I'm walking around in the world and they come up to me and they say they watch the show it's just the greatest feeling because again I'm Crea for me to hear that too because we need young women hearing alternative voices like that there's so many of them that come up to me and it's amazing the other side is fed to them in a silver magazine cover stars all the shows featured everywhere and everything in leftwing media and you know the rightwing it's like you have to watch it subversively if you are 17 or 18 but more and more of them are they're starting to do it as a backlash to this over not I don't know it's not an over correction it's just the over promotion of like women's history month and black history month and gay history month and pride month all of it I think subversively they're starting to look for alternative sources of information even even young people so on the subject of men though you're you're married you got married young yes a month ago oh best wishes very is you're yes so how are like kids your age dating how do you find because I'm worri we talking with Adam about Mr konzi in birum who's got the man bun and um he wears a sign that reads the future is female yes and he's a completely a mascul version of a man I just don't think any woman really would want to sleep with a man like that I can't understand a woman who would want to sleep with a man so but it seems like that's the trend now more and more young men are becoming more carpon esque than they are Berra mask I call them the wet cigarette men the uh Timothy shames yeah I don't know why but it's just like that and uh Machine Gun Kelly that style that genre of man on my show I always say you're you're a wet cigarette man you're Lim and you're kind of Brun and kind of nasty and I don't know if you shower uh and you're very very skinny um I always say but no it the 2024 dating landscape is a hellscape for sure I feel so awful because I read my comments and I have so many people both men and women saying where do where do I find like-minded people and I'm seriously working with my team I don't know how to make them meet I don't know if I just need to I was talking with Jordan about this on his podcast I was like I don't know if you need to set up something after your shows after your lectures where you have them all like all the cute men in their suits and the girls that come to listen I don't know what it is but something because they're out there and they are desperately searching I justed episode about bumble bumble just did a huge Rebrand most people are still trying to meet Partners on dating apps I don't know what Bumble is okay so Bumble was created in 2014 to empower women it is the feminist dating app and women had to make the first move and so they did that so the women were in the driver's seat they did not have to get any you know unsolicited sexual pictures no cringe comments from men they were in control so it's like Tinder and hinge where you swipe but the women have to send the first message well 10 years later apparently it's a burden women don't want to make the first move they don't want to do it that's the whole reason that the app was created but now they're saying it's too it's too hard I don't want to do it so they created this system where Bumble sends an automatic message from the woman so technically it is still from the woman but Bumble the app is sending it the men have to create the clever interesting personalized response and then the woman on the other side of the screen gets to think is that clever enough so I mean it's just that is like those are the apps that's what's going on they have become a game and they are designed to keep you on the app like those apps make money by you not meeting somebody and not having a fulfilling relationship that whole need like we saw Behind The Social Network that's behind the dating apps too for sure oh my Lord um and I remember like I think that there is a way that you can use them well I was actually on Dennis prager's show gosh like four years ago we were talking about home schooling this was at the very beginning when I was starting to do this kind of work and we were talking about dating and I wasn't dating anybody at the time and he said I think that you should be on dating apps CU you live in California and he said if you use them correctly and you put all your values out there and you say I I am a Christian I am conservative he's like even if you're 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Published: Wed May 08 2024