Evangeline Lilly attended anti-vax rally to ‘support bodily sovereignty’
Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly has proudly revealed that she went to the huge “Defeat the Mandates” rally in Washington, DC — saying she did so “to support bodily sovereignty.”
The 42-year-old “Lost” star posted a series of black-and-white photos from Sunday’s rally where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a controversial speech likening vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany.
“I was in DC this weekend to support bodily sovereignty while Canadian truckers were rallying for their cross-country, peaceful convoy in support of the same thing,” the actress wrote alongside her snaps.
“I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will,” wrote Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne in the “Ant-Man” franchise.
She listed a series of threats anti-vaxxers face, suggesting they include “violent attack, arrest or detention without trial, loss of employment, homelessness, starvation, loss of education, alienation from loved ones [and] excommunication from society.”
“This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love,” she wrote.
“I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems,” she wrote.
“I was pro-choice before COVID and I am still pro-choice today.”
Her images ended with a quote from AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant saying, “All tyranny begins with the desire to coerce others for the greater good.”
Lilly had faced backlash early in the pandemic with a March 2020 post in which she bragged that it was “business as usual” as she dropped her children off at their activities.
After being savaged online, she soon offered a “sincere and heartfelt apology for the insensitivity I showed.”
“PLEASE KNOW I AM DOING MY PART TO FLATTEN THE CURVE, PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING HOME WITH MY FAMILY,” she wrote at the time.
Another Marvel actress, “Black Panther” star Letitia Wright, later also faced criticism after she shared an anti-vaccine video online. She temporarily deactivated her Twitter and Instagram accounts before apologizing.
Disney, which owns Marvel, had previously required all employees to be vaccinated. However, that was put on hold in Florida last November after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation against such mandates.