Don Cheadle slams Marvel co-star Letitia Wright for sharing anti-vaccine video: ‘I would never defend anybody posting this’
Black Panther actor Letitia Wright attracted controversy after sharing a video questioning the effectiveness of a possible coronavirus vaccine, and vaccines typically. The ensuing backlash additionally included a takedown by her Marvel Cinematic Universe co-star Don Cheadle, who mentioned that he would take the dialog offline.
Letitia, greatest recognized for taking part in T’Challa’s sister Shuri within the MCU, a personality that can reportedly take a extra central position within the Black Panther franchise’s future, on Thursday tweeted a video from On The Table, a YouTube dialogue channel. The presenter of the video spoke concerning the Covid-19 vaccine, and forged doubt over its efficacy. “I don’t understand vaccines medically, but I’ve always been a little bit of a sceptical of them,” he mentioned.
Reacting to the backlash that adopted, she tweeted, “If you don’t conform to popular opinions. but ask questions and think for yourself….you get cancelled.” She additionally responded to a number of Twitter customers who criticised her resolution to share the video.
Her MCU co-star Don Cheadle was tagged into conversations across the topic, and mentioned that he would take the matter up along with her personally. “…I’ll personally take it to her if she said something crazy. Not to Twitter. That’s how I do it with friends and how I hope they do it with me if I fkkk up. Trying to find it now,” he mentioned, about looking for her unique tweet, and the video she shared.
He adopted up and wrote, “Jesus… Just scrolled through. Hot garbage. Every time I stopped and listened, he and everything he said sounded crazy and fkkkd up. I would never defend anybody posting this. But I still won’t throw her away over it. The rest I’ll take off Twitter. Had no idea.”
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This week, former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton all agreed to get themselves vaccinated for the coronavirus, in an effort to spice up public religion within the vaccine. President-elect Joe Biden has already mentioned that the vaccine might be made obtainable to each American, freed from price.
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