Kate Beckinsale has some things to get off her chest.
The actress took to Instagram on Friday, April 3 to allege that she was dropped by her talent agent after simply liking a social media post about a ceasefire in Gaza. The comments, which have since been deleted, were left under a post by Mark Ruffalo promoting his new film Palestine 36.
“Gosh, it must be so nice not to be fired by your Agent for liking a post about a ceasefire and not supporting the murdering of children,” Beckinsale wrote per Entertainment Weekly, before going into significantly more detail about what she claims happened. “I guess having a penis in Hollywood really counts for a lot because you’ve not been fired by the same Agent that I had and she sent me a gift the week before so we didn’t have any beef, but I liked a post about a ceasefire and I’ve got fired on the same day as Susan Sarandon was fired, two days after the end of the strike after nine months of none of us being able to work at all.”
Beckinsale alleged the timing made everything worse. She was dealing with a family crisis at the time—her mother, Judy Loe, had been given six weeks to live with brain cancer, and her stepfather had just suffered a catastrophic stroke. “I was fired in two sentences after 12 years of friendship with my Agent,” she wrote, adding that her agent “definitely knew what I was dealing with, alone.”
The Underworld actress also revealed she had previously tried to address the situation privately with Ruffalo. “DMd you about this months ago but you ignored me,” she told him directly. She later softened her stance somewhat, clarifying she wasn’t blaming Ruffalo personally and that she genuinely supports his activism, but pointed to the silence as an example of “male privilege even in the good guys.”
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The callout comes during what has clearly been an extraordinarily painful stretch for Beckinsale. At the end of 2025, the 52-year-old shared an emotional video addressing the grief she has carried following the deaths of her mother in July 2025, her stepfather in January 2024, and her father Richard Beckinsale—who died when she was just five years old. In the video, she also pushed back against body shamers who had been commenting on her weight loss, explaining the physical toll of prolonged grief in a way that resonated deeply with fans. Fans flooded the now deleted post with comments of support.