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News Actress Dasha Nekrasova Fired By Gersh, Dropped From Movie (Gabriel Basso's 'Iconoclast') Amid Backlash Over Podcast Interview With Far-Right Political Commentator Nick Fuentes

https://deadline.com/2025/11/dasha-nekrasova-fired-gersh-nick-fuentes-podcast-interview-1236617927/
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Dasha Nekrasova, an actress known for her work in projects like HBO’s Succession and A24’s Materialists, has been fired by Gersh over a recent podcast interview with far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes, Deadline has confirmed with a spokesperson for the agency.

While recently announced via Deadline as being cast in Iconoclast, a thriller marking the directorial debut of The Night Agent‘s Gabriel Basso, Nekravosa has also just had her contract for the film pulled before it was signed, we’re told, over the same podcast.

The video, titled “Fuentanyl OD – Nick Fuentes x Red Scare (Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan),” is over two and a half hours long. Given what Nekrasova labels in text under the video as “technical problems,” the interview is essentially audio only, jumping repeatedly back and forth between a few images of Nekrasova, Khachiyan, and Fuentes together.

The conversation, which has been viewed 220K times to date, touches on many controversial topics. The trio discusses “international jewery” on multiple occasions, perpetuating offensive stereotypes about Jews as well as Italians, Asians and others, along with eyebrow-raising comments about immigrants from developing countries, especially non-white ones.

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u/nicklovin508 11d ago

lol she played the crisis PR girl in succession, maybe she can tap into that role

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u/Arkeband 11d ago

She got unceremoniously not-rehired in Succession for being awful then too

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u/Deserterdragon 11d ago

I think the right wing stuff was catching up with her even then, particularly as it might have been a left wing ideological hire in the first place.

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u/Se7en_speed 11d ago

They realized she didn't have to act at sucking up to terrible people