Kennedy was criticized for his decision to appear in the conservative film
Roe v. Wade (2019). He said many of the far-right personalities who appear in the film shot their scenes late in production and he was not aware they would be appearing in the same film. In an interview with 'The Daily Beast', Kennedy said he took the role as an acting challenge and he is personally pro-choice and that, "it's also not fair for people to think that because I'm in a project with them that I'm like that, or that I believe in this stuff. That's not fair." (To which the interviewer responded, "If someone popped up in
Triumph of the Will (1935), I would probably assume that they don't like Jews very much.").