Bernie Sanders flirted with a career in Hollywood

Bernie Sanders had a small part in the 1988 film "Sweet Hearts Dance" alongside well-known actors including Susan Sarandon, Don Johnson, and Jeff Daniels. This is a little-known fact about Bernie. Due to the fact that he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at the time, he only appears in the film for a brief cameo of 45 seconds when the main protagonists are trick-or-treating in Vermont.

It didn't end there. In the low-budget comedy "My X-Wedding Girlfriend's Reception" from 1999, he played the rabbi. He obviously left the film industry, but he is nonetheless given credit for the few roles he has had. Sanders, who plays a rabbi officiating the wedding who can't get over the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to Los Angeles in 1958, is actually quite terrific in it. Sanders was a high school student in Brooklyn at the time, thus this parallels his real life. This is the setting. Gibson, who had a few successful pop songs in the 1980s, is the bride seated at the table.

Of course, he has appeared in many other movies and TV shows, always as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. His whole filmography seems to be made up of the two roles mentioned above; during that time, he co-starred with an Oscar winner in films about athletics, Vermont, New York, and wealth redistribution. That is to say, it was flawless.