'Sopranos' Star Drea De Matteo Responds to Hollywood Stars' Jokes After Trump Shooting: 'Not a Single Shade of Peace'

EXCLUSIVE – Former “Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo is speaking out after some celebrities mocked the attempted assassination of former President Trump last Saturday.

Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13 during a campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed his right ear. He made his first public appearance since the shooting last week at the Republican National Convention wearing a bandage over his ear.

Some celebrities found the situation amusing. Jack Black's bandmate Kyle Gass joked during a concert in Australia that his birthday “wish” was that the shooter wouldn't miss Trump next time. Black has since said he was “blindsided” by the comments and canceled the Tenacious D tour. Gass also apologized on Instagram, before later deleting the post.

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill mocked the size of Trump's bandage, “calling it ridiculously oversized.”

Matteo said she was a big fan of these actors and celebrities, but was disheartened by the recent comments.

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Actor Jack Black's bandmate said his birthday wish was for a shooter to “not miss” Trump, after a gunman attempted to assassinate the former president last weekend. (Getty Images)

“Everybody has the right to their opinion and their freedom of speech, so that’s where we are,” she told Fox News Digital. “But, again, I’m a liberal. I’m a liberal who doesn’t understand how the left has become so rebellious, without a shred of peace, love, harmony and compassion. You’re supposed to be the party of inclusion, love, peace. And all of a sudden, it’s the rioters. It’s the mean-spirited people that are here. And I don’t understand that.”

As for Black's bandmate Gass, Matteo said it wasn't so much that she objected to him saying anything, but how “shocking” it was to hear the audience laugh, as well as some of the amused reactions in the United States.

“To hear a part of America rallying to death,” she said. “And that, I don’t understand.”

“Of course it's hateful rhetoric, but I think it goes much further than that,” Matteo said of last Saturday's assassination attempt.

Matteo, an Emmy Award-winning actress, is known for her roles on “The Sopranos” and, later, “Sons of Anarchy.” Like so many progressives in Hollywood, Matteo said she was a victim of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Then she did her own research.

“Say what you want about Trump, and I understand that a lot of people suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she said. “I was one of them. But people can change. And it wasn’t Trump who changed, it was me who changed. I did my research and I paid more attention to what was going on.”

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Matteo said his “rude awakening” came during the COVID-19 shutdowns and the mandates that accompanied them.

“I really feel like the truth is going to be more on the conservative side right now,” she continued. “Because they want to preserve this country, and rightly so.”

Actors Michael Imperioli and Drea De Matteo in a scene from the HBO television series “The Sopranos.” (Photo by Anthony Neste/Getty Images)

Matteo, who has said she supports both Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has previously decried the Hollywood treatment she received for not rallying behind Biden.

“[In the] “The Sopranos, even though we were critically acclaimed, we were outcasts. I’m still an outcast. Here I am, they’re going to take me out in the woods and shoot me because I didn’t support Biden,” she said on “Jesse Watters Primetime” in June, referencing the violent end of her character Adriana La Cerva on the HBO series “The Sopranos.”

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“And all these celebrities who are going crazy and destroying Trump's character, I think it's time for all these people to ask themselves why they're so filled with rage?” de Matteo told Fox News Digital.

Asked whether there are “quiet” Trump voters in Hollywood, De Matteo said, “I think there are a lot of them.” But she seems doubtful that they will be more vocal, even in light of the political upheaval of recent weeks, because she says they are still afraid.

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as several gunshots ring out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

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“It’s sad to me that a lot of people are still living in that kind of fear,” she said. “Because in the next six months, it’s not going to matter which side you’re on. I think it’s the whole issue of humanity and the karma of the country that’s really going to move us forward or make us fail.”

Matteo, who runs her new clothing brand, Ultrafree, said she no longer describes herself as an actress as she is currently focusing on other causes.

“I don’t want to work in Hollywood anymore,” she said. “I’d rather just talk about it and help more people understand that if you only vote on social issues like abortion, they’re missing the point. And that’s coming from a staunch liberal.”