Kevin Sorbo won worldwide fame as a young actor playing Hercules, but today as one of Hollywood’s few openly conservative actors he laments the industry’s cancel culture and its embrace of dark, radical and negative movies.

“It’s unfortunate,” he told the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show in a recent interview. “I always joke that if I played a radical Islamic pedophile terrorist in a movie, I get nominated for an Academy Award. And that’s really a weird world we’re in right now.”

As Hollywood has drifted further left and away from many mainstream families, Sorbo has created his own studio committed to positive, family-friendly movies. He said the industry is missing a huge market of 80 million fans by refusing to make more upbeat content.