Ed Begley Jr. says environmental activism hurt his acting career: 'I gave people the creeps'

Actor Ed Begley Jr. claimed his biology activism made him a pariah in Hollywood complete nan years.

The actor, who starred successful nan tv bid "St. Elsewhere," said he went done a agelong acting barren spell successful nan '90s that was fueled by concerns he would beryllium difficult to activity pinch owed to his commitment to nan environment.

"I gave group nan creeps," he told Page Six, explaining that Hollywood executives were fearful he would shame them for not being ambiance conscious enough. 

"People were acrophobic that I was going to constituent astatine them exiting their limo aliases their SUV and go, ‘How tin you thrust a car?’" he claimed.

Actor Ed Begley Jr. says his biology activism wounded his career. (Getty Images)

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The 73-year-old character whose appeared successful galore films and tv shows, recalled really his agents warned him that his estimation arsenic an environmentalist was losing him acting gigs.

"They [agents] said, ‘You’ve sewage to backmost disconnected a small spot because, you know, it’s difficult to get you a job,’" he said.

Begley Jr. shared stories from 2 films wherever crews worried nan character would origin a scene. In 1 instance, unit were successful a frenzy owed to recycling bins not being connected group yet and successful different lawsuit a shaper pulled him speech to make judge it was good for him to thrust a car successful nan scene.

But nan character who erstwhile had a reality tv bid connected HGTV called "Living pinch Ed," based connected his green lifestyle, said he's ne'er shamed anyone complete their choices.

"I was like, ‘This is what I do and if you want to do it, I’ll show you really I did it,'" he told Page Six.

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Ironically, Begley Jr. said his environmentalism was what helped him enactment afloat during his agelong acting barren spell.

"Bills are very debased because of each nan worldly I did," he explained.

 "I turn a batch of my ain food, I cod my rainwater, I person my ain electricity, I power my h2o pinch nan sun. All of it makes for a very inexpensive life," he argued.

Begley Jr. said he doesn't advocator for an "all aliases nothing" attack but suggested everyone do what they can.

"Just do what you can, immoderate you tin afford, do it today," he said. "You cognize it’s not each aliases nothing, you do what you tin … everybody has to do what they can, what they tin afford, what you person clip for and there’s a batch that everybody tin do now."

The actor's manner differs from Hollywood A-listers for illustration Leonardo DiCaprio who are often spotted connected their backstage yachts and jets while touting a committedness to nan environment.

"Real Time" big Bill Maher precocious claimed each biology activistic successful Hollywood and Washington is simply a hypocrite erstwhile it comes to practicing what they preach.

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Admitting he besides flies connected a backstage jet, Maher shared pictures of DiCaprio, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. and galore different wide celebrities and politicians boarding their backstage jets.

"But each nan environmentalists of Hollywood and Washington do it. Their position connected ambiance alteration is ‘We must do much to extremity pouring c into nan air, isolated from for maine erstwhile I wanted to spell location and past I return a backstage jet,’" he mocked.