Famed Alabama actor: Jesus would tell Tea Partiers ‘get out of people’s bedrooms and bathrooms’

Reg E. Cathey in "House of Cards"
Reg E. Cathey in "House of Cards"
Reg E. Cathey in “House of Cards”

Huntsville, Alabama, native and famed actor Reg E. Cathey is best known for his roles in HBO’s “The Wire” and Netflix’s “House of Cards,” but he is also quickly earning a reputation for being one of Hollywood’s most anti-Trump, anti-Tea Party commentators.

“If Jesus was to come to America today, talk about throwing the merchants out of the temple, he’d be throwing all these douchebags out of Christianity,” Cathey told The Guardian. “If he met anyone from the Tea Party, he’d be furious: ‘Get the f*** out of people’s bedrooms and bathrooms.’”

Cathy was being interviewed about his new Cinemax series “Outcast,” but couldn’t help but share his thoughts on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump as well. “Trump is the devil,” he said, adding that “Outcast’s” creator “would definitely have had some subtle reference to him” in the show, if Trump “had come out while we were shooting.”

Continuing on his tirade, Cathy also had some harsh words for his home state, where he returned at age 14 after his military family spent several years stationed in Germany.

“(I)t was terrible,” he said. “I was prepared for how white people treated black people in the south, but I wasn’t prepared for how black people treated each other. How my parents had taught us to present ourselves in public, two eloquent black kids raised in Germany, meant we did not fit in at all.”

If you still feel like previewing “Outcast” after all of that, you can check out the trailer below.

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