Margaret Cho has revealed which acting role she regrets passing up.
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Margaret Cho Rejects Role Over ICE Concerns
Margaret Cho has revealed which acting role she regrets passing up.The 57-year-old actress and comedienne was a guest on the I Never Liked You podcast this week...
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The 57-year-old actress and comedienne was a guest on the I Never Liked You podcast this week, where she was asked by Nick Smith, 'Is there something you've never done that you're like, "I wish that I could still do that"?'
To Smith and co-host Matteo Lane's utter shock, she said she turned down the chance to be on the hit hockey romance-drama .
She detailed, 'Last year, I got a pilot script for a show that I really loved, but it shot in , and I was so scared because I'm so vocal about hating ICE and hating this administration. I was like, I will get detained at the border and I will be put in ICE detention if I go.'
Cho added, 'I was struggling over it. I had to talk to all of these people about it. And I was super upset about it, and I said no. And it was Heated Rivalry.'
She didn't let the tough decision stop her from watching the show when it premiered on in November 2025.
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Margaret Cho has revealed which acting role she regrets passing up; pictured in March
Cho said she turned down the chance to be on the hit hockey romance-drama Heated Rivalry, starring Connor Storrie (L) and Hudson Williams (R)
Heated Rivalry's main roles – Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander – are played by Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams respectively.
The hot and heavy scripted series is based on the romance novel of the same name by Rachel Reid.
The hot and heavy scripted series is based on the romance novel of the same name by Rachel Reid
In March Cho recalled now-president Donald Trump's 'odd' insistence in having her join the cast of The Apprentice in an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail.
Before his career in politics, he was the host of the reality show, which followed a group of businessmen and women competing for an opportunity to work with him.
Trump, 79, was particularly keen on having Cho join the cast and sought her out over the course of several years.
'It was just odd, because he really wouldn't let up over a couple of years, he really wanted me to do it,' she said at the 2026 Queerties, where she was receiving the Icon Award.
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The comedienne was dissuaded from being a cast member after she appeared on an episode to support her friend, singer Cyndi Lauper, on The Celebrity Apprentice.
'And I just was like, I have bad feeling. I had gone on briefly for when my friend Cyndi Lauper had done The Apprentice,' she said.
'And so I went to visit her challenge in her diners, and it was just very stressful. I didn't want to put myself in that position. I had no idea who he was.
'I never really spent that much time in New York, and he's such a New York kind of person. Everybody knew, but I didn't really know,' she recalled.
Cho previously said during an appearance on The Julia Cunningham Show that she also turned down a request from Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen to support his 2016 presidential campaign.
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