Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">William H. Macy</a> discussed some criticisms he had for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">entertainment</a> industry during a podcast interview that aired this week.
The 74-year-old “Shameless” star was a guest on “Films to Be Buried With Brett Goldstein” when he answered the host’s question about the “worst” film he’d ever seen, which led to conversations about other topics, per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/william-h-macy-doesnt-like-violence-films-1235912076/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
“Oh, boy. I rarely get through them,” Macy said of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movies</a> as a whole. “I think at the end of the day, one thing any story has to be is true. It’s got to be true to the human experience. And I think the test is if you put it out there and a couple of million people see it, that most of them recognize the issue and it moves them.”
The actor went on to discuss how he’s especially offended by unrealistic movies and by excessive violence.
“I guess the most obvious example — and I can see the will to live just fade from people when I get on this kick — but I think Hollywood is doing a lot of damage to the world with our portrayal of violence,” Macy continued. “It’s not true, and it’s not a good place to be lying when it comes to our portrayal of violence.”
The Oscar-nominated star went on to explain how he asked for a reduction in violence on the set of a Western he was working on.
“When I first started off, there were nine bodies on page four, and I lobbied for us to go back to the real West and not to Westerns,” the actor said. “Don’t imitate films.”
Macy used the reasoning that only a few men died at the infamous showdown at the O.K. Corral. 
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“It was the biggest thing. Four guys,” he said of that real-life event. “Most of the scripts you get, there’s four guys on the first page. You see them downtown blasting away in New York City. There’s not a cop to be seen. People get shot four times and they give a speech.”
Only three men, Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton, <a href="https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/gunfight-ok-corral-becomes-legend#:~:text=On%2026%20October%201881%2C%20three,turned%20it%20into%20a%20legend.">died</a> during the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
The “Fargo” star also shared his idea for a television drama.
“I wanna do a thing where, you take three episodes to have you fall in love with one of the major characters and then shoot him,” he told the podcast host. “But don’t write him off the show. And every week, you can see what a bullet does to a human body. You can see how it wrecks his marriage. You can see how he gets infections. You can see how he has to learn to walk again or use his hands again. You can see the deep, dark depressions.”
“Let’s tell the truth about it, because I swear to God, you kill one person, there’s nothing more dramatic than that. You kill 18 people, it’s just porn. The only thing you can do to make that more dramatic is kill 18 more,” Macy concluded.

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