<p>Actor Ed Begley Jr. says his environmental activism caused a dry spell in his film career, claiming that studios and directors passed over him out of fear that he would make demands for on-set environmental measures.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; actor told entertainment outlet Page Six (in an <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/02/26/ed-begley-jr-s-environmentalism-made-him-a-hollywood-outcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that was published Sunday) he explained that when people saw the <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/riding-with-ed-an-actor-devoted-to-the-green-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drastic measures</a> he took in his personal life to protect the environment — once famously biking to the Academy Awards — they worried he might judge or scold those who did not.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gave people the creeps,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People were afraid that I was going to point at them exiting their limo or their SUV and go, &#8216;How can you drive a car?'&#8221;</p>
<p>But Begley Jr. said he never expected others to hold the same values or take the same measures that he had. Instead, he explained, &#8220;I was like, ‘This is what I do and if you want to do it, I’ll tell you how I did it.'&#8221;</p>
<p>But things changed when he biked to the Oscars — and his agents warned him that he should dial back the visible activism if he wanted to continue working. On the set of &#8220;The Pagemaster,&#8221; the actor added that producers had pulled him aside, worried he might object about filming a scene in which he had to drive a car.</p>
<p>&#8220;They [agents] said, &#8216;You’ve got to back off a little bit because, you know, it’s hard to get you a job,'&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until Christopher Guest cast him in &#8220;Best In Show&#8221; that he started working regularly again — landing roles in &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; and &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; — and he said that the irony was that his activism was what had allowed him to manage while the money wasn&#8217;t flowing in.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bills are very low because of all the stuff I did,” he explained. “I grow a lot of my own food, I collect my rainwater, I have my own electricity, I heat my water with the sun. All of it makes for a very inexpensive life,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>In addition to his recent work on television, the actor has written a memoir that&#8217;s due out in October — and in it, he calls on people not to do what he&#8217;s done, but to do what they can when they can.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just do what you can, Whatever you can afford, do it today,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know it’s not all or nothing, you do what you can.&#8221;</p>

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