The self-importance of overpaid entertainers knows no bounds.

People magazine reports that Welsh actor Michael Sheen, who has played Tony Blair (The Queen), David Frost (Frost/Nixon), and William Masters (of Masters and Johnson fame), suggested in a recent interview that he is contemplating scaling back on acting in order to focus on fighting the “demagogic, fascistic” politics that led to Donald Trump’s election win. 

Speaking with The Times UK, the actor said he’s determined to fight the “hard populist right” through grassroots organization, beginning with his hometown of Port Talbot, Wales. “In the same way as the Nazis had to be stopped in Germany in the Thirties, this thing that is on the rise has to be stopped,” he told the Times.

The left owes such a huge debt to Hitler and Nazism. Without Adolf, with whom would the left make their ludicrous, kneejerk comparisons of everyone on the right?

Reportedly feeling “terrified” about the current state of politics, Sheen declared that becoming more of an activist “means that I would work less as an actor, and possibly stop,” he said, a threat that will surely strike fear into the hearts of moviegoers everywhere. “It will be a big change for how people relate to me,” he said. “Once I’m in, I’m fully in, and this is big. As soon as you start to be effective, then people try to crush you, because it’s dangerous.”

What a courageous artist Sheen is, to brave the dangerous pushback he would suffer if he dared take on the fascistic, populist right who shut down dissent, demonize the opposition, and riot at the drop of a hat. Oh wait -- that's the left.

Sheen's girlfriend is purported comedienne Sarah Silverman, which explains a lot about him.