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Gersh Fires Dasha Nekrasova After Nick Fuentes Podcast Interview

The booking follows past controversial remarks noted in a 2023 New Yorker profile.

Overview

  • A Gersh spokesperson confirmed the agency dropped Nekrasova after far-right commentator Nick Fuentes appeared on her Red Scare podcast.
  • Deadline reports her unsigned contract for Gabriel Basso’s thriller Iconoclast was pulled over the same episode, citing unnamed sources.
  • The Oct. 10 YouTube interview, titled “Fuentanyl OD – Nick Fuentes x Red Scare (Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan),” runs over two and a half hours and has about 220,000 views, with a repost adding roughly 69,000.
  • Coverage identifies Fuentes as the leader of the “Groypers” movement and, per CNN, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier.
  • Reports highlight segments discussing “international jewery” and other offensive stereotypes, and note Nekrasova had not issued a public statement.