She starred in the hit ’00s series Lost, The Hobbit (2014) and the Marvel Comics films Ant Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). The Canadian writes children’s books and is considered socially committed. Now she has joined the camp of vaccine skeptics. Not the first time.
Evangeline Lilly announced via Instagram that she had taken part in the central demonstration against the corona vaccination regulations at the Washington Monument in the American capital on January 23. She posted a series of photos from the demo, captioned with a quote from investor and author Naval Ravikant (“A Guide to Wealth and Happiness”): “All tyranny begins with a desire to coerce others for the greater good.” .
In her post, Lilly wrote, “I don’t think anyone should ever be forced to inject their body against their will.” She joined the march to “support physical sovereignty”. Among the speakers at the event was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy, who compared compulsory vaccination in the USA to methods used in Nazi Germany.
Evangeline Lilly doesn’t think the vaccines are safe. “That is not healthy. This isn’t love. I understand that the world lives in fear, but I don’t think we can solve our problems by responding to fear with violence. I was pro-choice before COVID and I am pro-choice today.”
The current post matches her vaccine-skeptical aura. She drew criticism last March when she told fans she refuses to self-isolate because she values freedom and dismissed the coronavirus as “respiratory flu”. In separate comments, she linked the spread of the virus to US government policies, only to later distance herself from them. “I would like to sincerely and heartily apologize for my lack of sensitivity that I have shown in my contribution to the very real suffering and fear that has gripped the world through COVID-19.”
After her support for the Canadian truck drivers, who refused the Covid regulations in border traffic with the USA, the pendulum at Lilly finally seems to be swinging on the vaccine skeptic side.