Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, told Newsmax on Friday that reports of some “Les Misérables” cast members sitting out a June 11 show at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because the president will be in attendance is “fake news.”
“It’s a fake news story completely started from CNN who heard through the grapevine anonymous sources that there were 10 to 12 cast members that were going to boycott and so the show was going to be shut down,” Grenell, appointed by Trump as interim president of the artistic hub of Washington, D.C., told “Finnerty” and guest host David Harris Jr. “That couldn’t be further from the truth.
“We talked to the producers, and the producers are well-prepared that if anyone calls in sick in some sort of protest, which they don’t believe will happen, but if there is a call-in-sick moment that they will just replace them.”
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