Russians not happy with actor Freeman

Morgan Freeman’s honey-kissed baritone has sound-tracked dozens of documentaries and public announcements in the Oscarwinner’s long Hollywood career.

But the 80-year-old star’s tenure in the business probably failed to prep him for the Russian reaction that greeted a two-minute online video he recorded recently for a group hoping to keep alive concerns over Kremlin meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Freeman is being portrayed as a tool of the U.S. establishment trying to bring down President Donald Trump, and as a man suffering from a “Messianic complex” from movie roles playing God and the president of the United States.

A “#StopMorganLie” hashtag is circulating aimed at discrediting the actor.

In the video’s opening, Freeman dramatically declares: “We have been attacked. We are at war.”

The Freeman video was put out this week by the Committee to Investigate Russia. Founded by Rob Reiner, the director of comedy classics such as “This is Spinal Tap” and “When Harry Met Sally,” the nonpartisan group is pushing for a more-aggressive acknowledgment of the alleged Russian hack.

Freeman’s video sets that tone, referring to President Vladimir Putin as an “a former KGB spy” who has “set his sights on his sworn enemy, the United States.”

“We need our president to speak directly to us and to speak the truth,” Morgan urges.

But now the actor is a pariah in Russia, with Kremlin officials, Russian talking heads and pro-Putin social media trolls ganging up to denounce him.

The BBC reported that Freeman is a frequent topic on Russian television. One station quizzed a panel of psychiatrists about the actor’s motivations, and they reportedly attributed “the performance to a Messianic complex resulting from playing God or the president in several films, not to mention ‘drug abuse.’”

Another TV personality said Freeman was sick from “overwork and marijuana use.”