Respek.
RT:
Actress Evangeline Lilly is facing major backlash, including calls for her to be sacked by Marvel Studios, after she voiced her opposition to Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
The blowback began after Lilly, a star of Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ movies, said on Thursday that she had participated in a protest last weekend in Washington, DC to support “bodily sovereignty.” She argued in an Instagram post that “nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will.”
“This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems,” Lilly said. “I was pro-choice before Covid, and I am still pro-choice today.”
Critics called for Lilly to be canceled from the Marvel franchise of superhero films, known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Richard Newby, a contributor to the Hollywood Reporter, said Lilly and another actress, Letitia Wright, are about to get themselves cast out of the MCU.
Yeah, there is no way she won’t be fired.
Coming out and saying “I believe in bodily autonomy” is now literally no different than coming out and saying “I believe niggers should be lynched.”
I would never question anyone’s sincerity.
But she is in her forties, and it is possible she is maneuvering for a job as a conservative pundit.
But I dunno – her Wiki says she’s going to be in a 2023 Marvel movie.
So maybe she’s just going kamikaze on principle.
Remember that Disney released the Mulan movie after the actress said she supported the Hong Kong police and not the US-backed Antifa. The film was already finished when she said it, but it hadn’t been released yet. They didn’t try to refilm the whole thing to remove her, but she’s never going to get another job again in Hollywood.
So maybe Lilly thinks she’ll get the same deal.
But hey – maybe she’s for real.
I don’t know.
Obviously, the fact that she makes a point to say she’s an abortionist in the post doesn’t endear me to her as much as if she wouldn’t have said that.