{"id":1220616,"date":"2022-01-17T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220616"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:52:22","slug":"exclusive-actor-trevor-donovan-plays-against-type-onscreen-on-social-media-and-especially-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-actor-trevor-donovan-plays-against-type-onscreen-on-social-media-and-especially-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Actor Trevor Donovan Plays Against Type \u2014 Onscreen, On Social Media, And Especially In Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-actor-trevor-donovan-plays-against-type-onscreen-on-social-media-and-especially-in-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Trevor Donovan may be best known as the leading man in romantic comedies, but the California native believes there is value in looking at things from another perspective \u2014 whether that means exploring challenging onscreen characters, being a positive influence on social media, or driving a political conversation that fosters cooperation rather than simply taking sides.<\/p>\n<p>Onscreen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1769806\/\">Donovan<\/a> has often chosen roles that force him to expand his own personal horizons and perspectives. Early on in his acting career, that meant exploring the emotional journey of Teddy Montgomery (\u201c90210\u201d) \u2014 a teenager struggling to come to terms with his own sexuality. More recently in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/news\/trevor-donovan-wolf-hound-1202903292\/\">Wolf Hound<\/a>,\u201d that means playing an ace Nazi fighter pilot in a World War II drama \u2014 despite the fact that Donovan is the grandson of an American World War II veteran.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331051\" class=\"wp-image-331051 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Trevor-Donovan-MR.jpg\" alt=\"Trevor Donovan MR\/Photo courtesy of Trevor Donovan\" width=\"1199\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/Trevor-Donovan-MR.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/Trevor-Donovan-MR-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/Trevor-Donovan-MR-496x576.jpg 496w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/Trevor-Donovan-MR-768x892.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-331051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Donovan MR\/Photo courtesy of Trevor Donovan<\/p>\n<p>Donovan said that becoming someone else \u2014 even just for a short time \u2014 was the nature of the job. He noted that an industry move toward pigeonholing actors \u2014 by saying that only certain people could play certain roles \u2014 was frustrating. \u201cThis is by definition \u2026 that\u2019s our job \u2014 to step out of who we are and take on a role that isn\u2019t who we are. That\u2019s the job. If everybody just goes in and plays who they are then that takes the creativity out of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Donovan also told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview that it\u2019s even more important to explore other perspectives and thought processes off-screen \u2014 especially in the often volatile arenas of social media and politics.<\/p>\n<p>When he first joined social media, Donovan said that he was disappointed to find it something of a \u201ccesspool,\u201d with people often arguing and getting angry \u2014 and not really listening or bothering to understand where others were coming from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are very easily offended. I have friends who we don\u2019t see eye to eye politically but we can still be friends. I think that\u2019s definitely missing from the political world and the world in general,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to have an emotional opinion and look for the headline that agrees with you and stick with that, but then you never learn anything about other people and the thought process they go through,\u201d he said, adding that he believed people who had a larger platform \u2014 and sometimes hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers \u2014 had a responsibility to help bring people together rather than simply throwing out opinions that may not be any better informed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it\u2019s pretty irresponsible to just throw my political opinions out there because I\u2019m not really any more informed than anyone else. I feel like a lot of people, especially on social media, might be willing to follow the opinion of someone who has a lot of influence and a lot of followers, and I think it\u2019s irresponsible to have this kind of platform and use it to throw my opinion out there and just allow people to follow or be manipulated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Donovan said, his presence on social media has been carefully crafted around the kind of \u201cinfluencer\u201d he wants to be: one who encourages people to have conversations, even the difficult ones, without immediately retreating to their political corners and lashing out in attempts to draw blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you encourage people to have adult conversation when everyone has an agenda and a narrative?\u201d he asked. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I don\u2019t use my platform to do anything other than learn how other people process information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donovan\u2019s Twitter feed, in between photos of his beloved dogs and dad-joke-worthy puns, is littered with questions \u2014 and not the kind designed to trap political opponents in a \u201cgotcha\u201d moment, but rather the kind that encourages people to look past the politics and engage on a human level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331057\" class=\"wp-image-331057 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"TD dogs\/Photo courtesy of Trevor Donovan\" width=\"2045\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-scaled.jpg 2045w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-460x576.jpg 460w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-1227x1536.jpg 1227w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/td-dogs-1636x2048.jpg 1636w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-331057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TD dogs\/Photo courtesy of Trevor Donovan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the idea of people just having conversations \u2014 everyone is so quick to get so offended and angry. No one has a conversation any more, they just get defensive,\u201d he said. \u201cI like to present the facts and then see if people can just have a conversation and come to their own conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to his own involvement in politics, Donovan has pursued similar goals. He regularly speaks with political leaders on both sides of the aisle, saying that the issues and the causes should be more important than partisanship.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Donovan, an ambassador for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, appeared alongside Democratic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Trevor Donovan may be best known as the leading man in romantic comedies, but the California native believes there is value in looking at things from another perspective \u2014 whether that means exploring challenging onscreen characters, being a positive influence on social media, or driving a political conversation that fosters cooperation rather than simply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}