Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger has become a hero to Democrats for turning on Donald Trump, but it’s come at great personal and political cost. In a new interview for Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, Kinzinger reveals he, his wife, and their toddler have become the target of constant death threats from Trump supporters after he had the audacity to join the January 6 th select congressional committee investigating the former president’s role in the capital insurrection. He says even his parents were subjected to abuse from family members and friends angered by Kinzinger’s principled actions.
We recorded our interview with Kinzinger at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he headed for the world premiere of The Last Republican , the documentary directed by Steve Pink that explores Kinzinger’s evolution from rising GOP star to party pariah. The duo – one a Hollywood liberal, the other a proud conservative — explain how they bonded over Pink’s hit comedy Hot Tub Time Machine . And Kinzinger shares his biggest regret post-January 6 th – failing “in essence [to] lead our own coup in the Republican party.
” The latest episode of Doc Talk is jam-packed with conversations in the field at TIFF . Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and director Sue Kim tell us about taking a deep dive with The Last of the Sea Women , and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck reveals why he asked actor LaKeith Stanfield to become the voice of a South African p.