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Zachary Levi sat down with Lara Trump this week to explain why he’s walking away from coast-to-coast Hollywood chaos and building Wyldwood Studios in Texas — an agenda-less, American-first production campus designed to put families and creators back at the center of filmmaking. Levi told viewers he wants real, human stories made by people who aren’t being told what to think by out-of-touch elites, a refreshingly honest message that conservative Americans have been waiting to hear.
The conversation turned to President Trump’s bold proposal to slap a 100 percent tariff on films produced overseas, and Levi didn’t dodge the issue; he called it a wake-up call to an industry that has been quietly shipping jobs and craft out of the country. Patriots should applaud a president willing to use trade tools to defend American workers and the cultural industries that shape our national identity.
Wyldwood Studios is not a vague idea — it’s a concrete $100 million project on 75 acres east of Austin, with plans for sound stages, housing for crews, amphitheaters and family-friendly production schedules. Levi is actively raising capital and pitching Wyldwood as a Texas alternative to the woke, coastal production system that has chased talent and tax dollars overseas. This is the kind of private investment that answers policy with action, not whining.
Levi also spoke plainly about the price of speaking up in Hollywood — producers and agents whispering that they won’t work with him anymore because he backed Trump and questioned the pandemic orthodoxy. Good. If standing with American values costs you the approval of Hollywood gatekeepers, then maybe it’s time those gatekeepers felt the consequences of their moral and cultural capture. Levi’s move to Texas and his studio plan are the right response: build your own institutions when the old ones betray the public.
Conservatives should see the tariff talk and Levi’s studio as two sides of the same patriotic strategy: policy that incentivizes domestic production and entrepreneurs who actually put skin in the game. The left’s globalist, incentives-for-anyone-but-America model hollowed out our industries and outsourced our stories; it will take both bold federal action and hometown builders to bring those jobs and dollars back. If politicians won’t act, men and women of means like Levi are showing how to lead with American pride and practical plans.
This is about more than movies; it’s about reclaiming an industry that shapes culture and work for millions of Americans. Support for Wyldwood and for policies that reward production at home means more jobs in places like Bastrop, stronger local economies, and media that reflects, not shames, American values. Patriots should back creators who choose country over clout and applaud a president and private citizens finally fighting to make American entertainment great again.
