Former tough-guy actor sets sights on US Senate
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Sonny Landham carved out a tough-guy reputation in a series of big-screen roles, from roughing up Sylvester Stallone to getting tossed out a window by Carl Weathers. He pulls no punches in his newest role: Libertarian challenger to a man known for political toughness, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Now 67 and living in northeastern Kentucky, the man who played Billy Bear in “48 Hours” and was killed by an alien in “Predator” admits his action-movie days are behind him. “I think I’m having wild action when I take two aspirin with my hot chocolate at night,” he quipped.
Don’t laugh too hard: both Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura were in Predator as well…
And Ronald Reagan was a B class actor. A doctor can be a politician, nobody laughs. An author, an engineer and accountant can be a politician, nobody laughs.
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And then comes the actors, whose profession is to play whatever role is required (like a politician
People are weird.