Hours after Donald Trump claimed victory in the presidential race, “Family Ties” actress Justine Bateman shocked Hollywood by revealing her relief – Tweet that she was “getting stressed out walking on eggshells” after four years of being “almost unbearable” and “un-American”.
Now she tells The Post that her battle cry came at a high cost, as people told her: “Oh Justin, I didn’t know you were a Nazi.
“Some of my friends would say, ‘I love you, call me anytime, but I have to unfollow you’ or ‘I have to distance myself from you online, publicly,'” Bateman said.
She said she had been warned that she was associating herself with “anti-women, anti-gay, anti-anti, anti, anti, anti.”
“I’ve been publicly quoted since 1982. You want a collection of quotes to support your argument that I’m any of those things? Go for it, man,” the 58-year-old filmmaker and actress Said. “There’s a lot of stuff out there that you can watch. And you won’t find anything.
“So the fact that people have to distance themselves from me…Look, I still love them, that’s OK. But every time they do it, and I’m talking about strangers too now, they absolutely prove my point.
Bateman says that, during and even before the Biden administration, America is living under a “cloud that is putting pressure on society.” As she tweeted, she’s referring to the concept of mob rule on social media and “any question, any opinion, any like or dislike” – whether it’s from Gaza to trans athletes in women’s sports or Be it about any kind of hot-button topics. Social Justice – “was kept to a very limited list of ‘allowed positions’ to assess acceptability.”
“Man, we just went to ‘1984’ on our own,” he told The Post with a frustrated sigh. “Reporting surveillance, monitoring each other. come on. Why? Don’t you want to relax? Do you want to always feel like you are bearing witness? Do you want to always feel as if someone is recording evidence that will be brought to court? Why do you want to live like this?”
Bateman – whose brother, “Ozark” actor Jason Bateman, Stumped for Kamala Harris – Washington D.C. on the night of November 5. I was there and was seeing that each and every state was glowing red.
“I was surprised by the relief I felt physically in my body,” she recalled. “I didn’t realize how uncomfortable I had been feeling for the last four years until I felt like the balloon had burst.”
She clarifies that it is not about being the hero of one party or one person – but about having the ability to express one’s views.
“For the first time I felt some air coming out of it [so-called balloon] When Elon Musk bought Twitter,” Bateman said. “And I’m just saying how it felt. I’m not saying what the outcome was or anything. I just felt that it had shrunk a little bit. And then I thought it got really bad when Trump was elected.
Bateman was 16 years old when she graced American homes every week as Mallory Keaton on the popular sitcom “Family Ties.” The show, which won five Emmys, centers on a pair of ex-hippie parents (Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross) who raise their three children — trendy Mallory, tomboy Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and Reaganomics-mad son Alex (Michael J. Fox) are raising. in the 1980s. (Bateman said he is still in regular contact with the cast and “Mike Fox.”)
The family had different views of the world – and sometimes even disagreements about it. But they were all able to express their views without worrying about harsh treatment or being ostracized. Bateman said this irony is not lost on him and he is eager to get America back to that place.
“There is room for everyone to feel however they want to feel. But you shouldn’t come to me and accuse me of certain things…” she said. “Go live your life and feel your feelings, but get away from me.”
Bateman has been married to financier Mark Fluent since 2021 and, as the mother of two children – son Duke and daughter Gianetta are both in their early 20s – she “really feels” for young people who have never had the same experience. Didn’t see the time when they were able to express their own opinions.
“Their parents need to tell them, ‘Live your life as freely as you want, but never infringe on someone else’s ability to live their life as freely as they want. Are.'”
It’s a lesson he’s taught his children.
“Especially when people are younger, you’re searching,” Bateman said. “Right now you will have some ideas about life, and maybe in two years you will grow out of them. “You may not feel that way anymore.”
“People are complex, they have different ideas… [we] It’s not a brand that stays the same.”
Bateman has definitely gone through a period of evolution in her life. After “Family Ties,” she continued acting with memorable roles in shows like “Desperate Housewives” and “Arrested Development” with her brother, Jason, and in films like “Satisfaction” with Julia Roberts. She launched a clothing line and co-hosts the podcast “Wake Up and Get Real” with her fashion publicist BFF Kelly Cutrone.
In 2016, Bateman received a degree in computer science and digital media management from UCLA. Five years later, he directed his first feature film, “Violet,” starring Olivia Munn, and late last year he completed his second and third films, “Look” and “Feel.” Both are avant-garde productions that will premiere at the Credo 23 Film Festival, directed by Bateman.
She wrote about her life as a “pre-famous” woman in her 2018 book, “Fame: Reality HijackingAnd Bateman has been Clear about beauty in old ageIn both his books “Face: one square foot of skin” and about its next film as well as on talk shows.
“For me, there are two ages: alive or dead…” she recently told a student group at USC. “Until you die, it’s your time, and you can do whatever you want.”
But it’s not about being a feminist – a label, like most others, which she rejects. She’s not into the “whole woman vs. man patriarchy”, especially in the film business.
“It’s not my jam,” Bateman said. “For me, as far as helping other people in business and stuff, that’s a big component of the business. You help other people, other people help you…
“I don’t do it just based on gender… When you introduce someone to your contacts in business, you are vouching for them. So for me, making sure it’s someone I can vouch for is more important than what gender they are.”
Having lived in Hollywood since childhood, she knows the liberal side of it – like the Democrats. George ClooneyWho played a big role in ousting Joe Biden from the presidential election – well and wish politics didn’t play such a big role.
“I love the entertainment business. I love everyone in the entertainment business. “I don’t care how they voted,” he said. “My love for them, for this business and for the art of filmmaking transcends any election. This is not important. It’s important for me to judge art and people based on their character, not based on their color, not based on their weight, not based on their age, not based on who they voted for. I don’t care.”
Well, Bateman won’t reveal exactly who she voted for in the presidential election. But she will say one thing – voters are Tired of celebrity endorsementsBe it from Oprah Winfrey or Katy Perry.
“People don’t really want to be told what to think,” Bateman said.
In fact, she sees her recent comments not as political but merely humanitarian: “Politics is not interesting to me… It’s a spiritual shift I felt, that’s all.
“I’m just saying that everyone should be free to live their life… Over the last four years or so, there have been a lot of situations where you look around and you say, “Huh. , worked hard to question the fact that the person was being harassed. And there that person is being beheaded because he questioned it.”
Now, Bateman said, the “woke era” is over. “I am also not presenting conflicting opinions about any specific topic. I’m just saying, that era of not being able to question things is over… He woke up the police – who are basically a version of the Stasi police, emotionally, physically, socially – it’s over Is.
“The only way you can break people and ruin their careers, ruin them socially, all this is if you have a mob mentality. And this has happened many times in history; Witch burnings, HUAC trials, Red Scare, McCarthy hearings… and when Trump won, it accelerated.
