Robert Davi on helming forthcoming Hunter Biden biopic: 'I felt like Peter Finch — mad as hell'
'My Son Hunter' centers on allegations against first son Hunter Biden
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Actor and singer Robert Davi felt like "Network" protagonist Howard Beale when he heard about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the director of the forthcoming film "My Son Hunter" told "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Tuesday.
Davi, who played James Bond villain Franz Sanchez in 1989's "License to Kill" and also starred in "The Goonies" and "Die Hard," said allegations against the younger Biden also deserve movie treatment.
Davi said documentary filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney approached him in 2021 with the script and asked him to direct the production.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"They had seen a film I had done… ‘The Dukes’ — that I did several years ago that won about 10 awards and they'd been waiting to do something," he said.
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Actor and Director Robert Davi appears on Fox News. (Fox News)
"And this popped into my hands. And I was frustrated, like all of America watching that Biden story: the laptop story being buried, continually buried — except for people like [host Jesse Watters] that brought it forward. So when it came into my hands, I was like Peter Finch in ‘Network’ — I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore, as the American people are."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Davi said the film, like many other projects from the Irish-American documentarians behind it, was funded through crowd-sourcing.
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Then Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
During the interview, he praised the cast, which includes British actor Laurence Fox in the lead role as Hunter Biden.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fox has come under fire in his home country for criticisms of "woke" culture and governmental coronavirus restrictions.
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Laurence Fox & Hunter Biden (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty | Randy Holmes via Getty )
Davi called Fox as "great English actor" and lamented the fact his aforementioned views have gotten him "a bit canceled in England."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Former "Star Wars: Mandalorian" star Gina Carano is also featured in "My Son Hunter" as a Secret Service agent, while "Dynasty" star John James plays President Biden.
The film develops through the eyes of a 23-year-old stripper who "hooks up with Hunter," Davi said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"[She] doesn't know who he is initially, and now we unfold the story — and she finds out about the corruption with the Chinese, with the Ukrainians, with the Russians. It's quite a terrific story. And it's got a lot of humor and heart," he said, adding it tastefully handles the first son's alleged drug abuse — with Davi disclosing he has experienced addiction within his own family.
"I also wanted to humanize the relationship between father and son, while at the same time showing the corruption and the underbelly, the psychology behind the codependency that Hunter had with his dad, as well as with the drugs."
The film premieres Sept. 7.