When Hollywood won’t defend American workers, patriotic actors do. Zachary Levi sat down with Lara Trump on My View to analyze President Trump’s push to consider a 100 percent tariff on films produced overseas and to explain why he’s building Wyldwood Studios as an agenda-less, pro-worker alternative to the crumbling Hollywood machine.
President Trump has publicly floated the idea of a 100 percent tariff on movies shot abroad as part of a broader effort to bring jobs and production back to U.S. soil, and his administration has said it’s exploring options to protect American industry. That bold stance—controversial to coastal elites—is rooted in a simple conservative principle: put American workers and American culture first.
Levi didn’t show up to whine; he showed up to build. On the Fox clip he explained that Wyldwood’s mission is to protect “human-made” storytelling from the twin threats of woke gatekeeping and soulless, AI-driven content, arguing that the industry needs real places where creatives can work under humane schedules and with families intact. That’s the kind of common-sense, family-friendly vision conservatives should champion.
The studio Levi is developing in Bastrop, Texas, promises to be more than a set of soundstages — it’s a $100 million, 75-acre campus with soundstages, amphitheaters, housing and a boutique hotel, and Levi is raising private capital to make it happen. Wyldwood’s practical plans, including 8-to-10-hour production days and on-site housing to keep crews near their families, show a humane, pro-worker alternative to Hollywood’s grind culture.
That’s why sensible trade measures and state incentives matter. Texas has ramped up production incentives and the Trump administration’s willingness to explore tariffs sends a clear signal that Washington will back Americans who keep jobs here instead of shipping them overseas for foreign tax breaks. Patriotic policies paired with private investment like Levi’s are exactly how you rebuild an industry without bowing to coastal elites.
Watch how the usual suspects reacted: Hollywood executives predict doom and cry “it can’t be done” when the solution is right in front of them. Their panic reveals priorities — protecting profit margins and globalist networks, not American families and workers — and conservatives should call that out every time.
Levi’s move is a reminder that culture can be reclaimed by people who believe in work, family, and creativity tethered to real communities. Support the men and women who put America first, whether they’re in the White House pushing policies that defend jobs or in Texas building studios that will hire Americans to tell American stories.
