Lucy Lawless slams Kevin Sorbo over his Capitol riot conspiracy theories

What does it take to get Xena: Warrior Princess trending online, 20 years after the show went dark? Xena giving Hercules a good old-fashioned smack down, of course.

Xena herself, AKA Lucy Lawless, was none too impressed when her former co-star Kevin Sorbo took to Twitter to falsely claim that the attacks in the U.S. Capitol earlier this week were actually perpetrated by Antifa members, and not Donald Trump supporters as reported. But when he retweeted a post from another user claiming the same thing, Lawless had enough. “Do these look like Trump supporters?” a user named Rogan O’Handley wrote in the original message along with a photo of rioters that Twitter has since identified as manipulated media. “Or Leftist agitators disguised as Trump supporters…”

“They don’t look like patriots to me…” Sorbo, who starred as Herc in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and then again in Xena, added in his retweet. “No, Peanut. They are not Patriots. They are your flying monkeys, homegrown terrorists, QAnon actors,” Lawless shot back in the comments. “They are the douchebags that go out and do the evil bidding of people like you who like to wind them up like toys and let them do their worst.” She then added the hashtags #keepingYourFilthyHandsclean and #enabler, just to further prove her feels.

While the response probably means there won’t be a Sorbo-Lawless Xena reunion anytime soon, fans were still there for it.

At time of press Sorbo had not responded to Lawless’s comments, but he has continued tweeting a series of other posts defending Donald Trump and calling the riot into question. He, along with celebrities like Jon Voight, Roseanne Barr, UFC founder Dana White, Scott Baio, and Kirstie Alley, were staunch Republican supporters during the 2020 election, in which Trump lost to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Biden will officially take office on January 20.

Lawless originally played the Xena character on Sorbo’s Hercules series in 1995, and she was so popular with fans that it led to her own spinoff, Xena: Warrior Princess. That show ran from 1995 to 2001 and made Lawless a household name (hands up if you can picture her doing the character’s iconic battle cry right now). Since then she’s appeared on numerous other TV series like Tarzan, Battlestar Galactica, Spartacus, No Ordinary Family and Ash vs Evil Dead, among others. Her next project is as the voice of Nunchuk in the 2021 film Minions: The Rise of Gru, which is currently scheduled for a July 2 release.

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