John Leguizamo condemned former Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain for volunteering to hitch the USA' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) division.
“What sort of loser volunteers to be an ICE officer?” the Encanto actor, 65, requested by way of Instagram on Friday, August 9. “What a moron! Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been.”
Leguizamo captioned the submit: “#DeanCain volunteered to be an ICE agent! I bought one phrase for you: LOSER!”
Frank Grillo — who starred within the 2025 Superman film — seemingly agreed with Leguizamo total, however differed barely together with his pal's description of Cain as a “hasbeen.”
“‘By no means was.' hahahahha,” Grillo, 60, replied.
Academy Award nominee Tatum O'Neal, Empire cocreator Lee Daniels and Purple Rain actress Apollonia Kotero additionally confirmed their help for Leguizamo's stance.
Cain, 59, introduced earlier this week by way of social media that he deliberate to hunt employment with the immigration company, which has carried out deportation raids all through the nation since Donald Trump took workplace as president in January.
“For many who don't know, I'm a sworn legislation enforcement officer, in addition to being a filmmaker. I felt it was essential to hitch with our first responders to assist safe the security of all People,” Cain defined by way of Instagram . “Not simply speak about it — so I joined up. Right here's your alternative to hitch ICE.”
The Hit the Flooring actor added, “If you wish to assist save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and eradicating them from America's streets. I like that, I voted for that. They want your assist to guard our homeland and our households.”
Dean Cain in March 2022. Paras Griffin/Getty Pictures
A spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety confirmed to the Associated Press on Thursday, August 7, that Cain can be sworn in as an “honorary ICE Officer” later this month.
A number of of Cain's Hollywood contemporaries took problem with Cain's alignment with ICE, with former Glee star Kevin McHale branding him a “f***ing pathetic loser” by way of X on Thursday, August 7.
“Look, I do know the leisure enterprise is in shambles, however think about being so out of labor and determined for consideration (I'd know) that you simply be part of ICE?” McHale replied to Cain.
Comic Margaret Cho questioned why Cain would wish to participate in ICE immigration raids given his Japanese-American heritage. (Cain has beforehand mentioned that members of his household have been interred on the Minidoka Warfare Relocation Heart in central Idaho throughout World Warfare II.)
Whereas many TV reveals have made family names out of their star gamers, sometimes showrunners have been in a position to corral a few of Hollywood's largest names to drop in for a stunning cameo throughout an entire episode or a single scene. Maybe one of the vital polarizing cameos belonged to Ed Sheeran on HBO's Recreation of […]
“You're Japanese. You're not even white,” Cho mentioned by way of Instagram. “You're not white. I do know you, and you aren't white. You may have by no means been white. And irrespective of what number of of those white actions that you simply take part in, [it] isn't gonna make that occur.”
Whereas Cain is primarily recognized for his appearing roles in Lois & Clark and Supergirl, he does have a background in legislation enforcement. Cain was sworn in as a deputy officer for the St. Anthony Police Division in Idaho in June 2018, and later joined the Frederick County, Virginia Sheriff's Workplace as a reserve deputy in Could 2022.
Cain informed Fox Information on Tuesday, August 5, that he didn't plan to put on a masks whereas collaborating in ICE duties, regardless of recommendation from his mother and father to take action.
“I've simply outed myself utterly proper now,” he mentioned. “And as a lot as my mother and father need me to put on a masks as a result of they concern for it, no probability in hell.”
