A month after suggesting President Donald Trump was blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Christian actor and “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson said studios have been calling on him to stay quiet on politics. Ritchson, 43, made the revelation just over two weeks ago during an interview at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, Ontario. “You know how many phone calls I get from studios like, ‘Would you shut the f— up, please?
Stop talking in public,’” Ritchson recalled about the conversations he’s been having about what he called his political rants. “I mean, but it’s not chaos I’m after,” he explained. “It’s actually the opposite of chaos. I’d like a little — I’m not going to get into it.
You don’t want to see my rants start these [expletive] politicians everywhere.” Exercising a little restraint during the interview, Ritchson said he wouldn’t discuss politics because Sony told him not to, but he still took a dig at the unreleased U.S. Department of Justice files related to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going to do it. Sony told me not to. And I’m not going to say anything.
Not today. Not today, Epstein,” he quipped as the audience cheered. Ritchson then gave a fist bump to one of his interviewers before declaring, “Pedos win.” Epstein interacted with high-profile individuals, including Trump. Although the DOJ has released millions of redacted files pertaining to Epstein, there are believed to be around 2.5 million more that have not been released. Lawmakers and victims have been pressing for the release of those unreleased files.
Since President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law in November 2025, the files have been released in stages. A memo issued by the DOJ and FBI last year stated that a majority of the files,