Earlier this month, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 actor Adrian Bouchet, who plays the one-eyed Jan Zizka, came under fire after publicly voicing support for the Unite the Kingdom rally in London.
Around 60,000 attended the anti-immigrant rally, led by far-right activist Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), who has a history of criminal convictions of assault and inciting hatred on a national level, even being accused of playing a part in the instigating of the Southport riots in 2024.
As reported by The Guardian, the march was inundated with Islamophobic and ethnonationalist hate speech and flyers, and nine people were arrested on suspicion of hate crimes. Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed support for the right to peacefully protest ahead of the rally, but accused organizers of "peddling hate and division", even blocking entry visas to 11 "far-right agitators" who sought to attend.
Nonetheless, Bouchet has doubled down on his support, and in a letter to fans, downplayed the rally as a "peaceful, collective moment of expression."
"It was intended solely as a show of support for the ordinary citizens: families, elderly people, veterans, gay people, black people, trans people; anyone from all and every background...
