'Succession' Actress Dasha Nekrasova Dropped by Agency and Film After Controversial Nick Fuentes Podcast Goes Viral [View all]

Source: Decider

Dasha Nekrasova — the Succession actress also known for A24’s Materialists — has been fired by Gersh following the resurfacing of a lengthy podcast interview with far-right personality Nick Fuentes. A representative confirmed the agency’s decision to Deadline, marking a swift industry response to the brewing controversy.

The fallout extended to Iconoclast, the upcoming thriller directed by The Night Agent star Gabriel Basso. Nekrasova had recently been announced as part of the cast, but sources tell Deadline her contract was pulled before signing due to the same podcast backlash. Though the Fuentes interview (which has since been deleted) was posted to YouTube a month ago, it only started circulating widely in Hollywood this week, prompting rapid calls to distance from the actress.

The interview appeared on Red Scare, the cultural commentary show she co-hosts with Anna Khachiyan. The two-and-a-half-hour episode — titled “Fuentanyl OD – Nick Fuentes x Red Scare (Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan)” — plays largely as audio due to what Nekrasova labeled “technical problems,” and reached over 220K views before being deleted.

Across the conversation, the trio discusses “international jewery” and leans into offensive stereotypes about Jewish people, Italians, Asians, and others, alongside eyebrow-raising remarks about the Holocaust and immigrants from developing countries, particularly non-white ones.

Read more: https://decider.com/2025/11/15/succession-actress-dasha-nekrasova-dropped-agency-film-nick-fuentes-podcast/