- by foxnews
- 21 Mar 2026
Joe Pantoliano is looking for a change of scenery.
Pantoliano, 73, told his social media followers that he's even taken the steps to get out of the country and secure visas in Portugal.
"It's hard for me to think about people's bulls--t like making a TV show. The world is on fire, it's hard for me to concentrate."
Pantoliano and his wife, Nancy Sheppard, recently returned from a trip to Portugal, and they're thinking of planting new roots abroad.
"We just got back. We really love it there," he said before expressing concerns about the power grid following last month's 18-hour blackout, which affected both Spain and Portugal.
"They just got hit with a cyberattack, and I think that's just a rehearsal for what will happen here," he said.
Pantoliano admitted that that reason alone was enough for him to "keep a lot of cash at home, not a lot but enough to get me going for a couple [of] weeks."
He insisted the amount wasn't easy to find, though, and that it's "buried and there's no map."
"We actually looked into getting visas so that we could live there part of the time, or most of the time. its a great place to retire," he said. "It's just, it suits me. I love to walk … I take amazing walks there. They had a blackout, I mean, all of Spain … half of Europe, France, Spain, Portugal."
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez later said a problem in the European grid that he described as a "strong oscillation" was behind the outage, but that the cause was still being determined. Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica said that restoring power to the country and neighboring Portugal could take six to 10 hours.
"I dunno, maybe it's a dress rehearsal for what's going to happen here," Pantoliano said. "You gotta think about that. You've got to think about our future, why is all of this happening? I'm very confused … and I wish I could understand why this is happening."
"The Fugitive" star may join a growing list of celebrities fleeing the United States.
When asked about her decision to move to Ireland, she also said, "The President of the United States has it out for me and has for 20 years," later adding that "he sort of uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need."
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