Shortly earlier than Woody Harrelson came under fire for spreading a conspiracy theory about COVID-19 vaccine producers throughout his “Saturday Night time Stay” monologue, the “Zombieland” actor took intention at “absurd” protocols on Hollywood units.
“I don’t suppose that anyone ought to have the correct to demand that you just’re pressured to do the testing, pressured to put on the masks and compelled to get vaccinated three years on. I’m similar to, Let’s be executed with this nonsense. It’s not truthful to the crews,” Harrelson, 61, told the New York Times Magazine in an interview revealed late final week.
“I don’t need to put on the masks. Why ought to they? Why ought to they need to be vaccinated? How’s that lower than the person? I shouldn’t be speaking about this [expletive],” continued the “True Detective” actor. “It makes me indignant for the crew. The anarchist a part of me, I don’t really feel that we must always have pressured testing, pressured masking and compelled vaccination. That’s not a free nation.”
The “Solo: A Star Wars Story” actor clarified he cares extra about crew members having the ability to take off masks, as he and different actors can do when delivering their traces.
“Actually I’m speaking concerning the crew. As a result of I can get out of sporting a masks. I can check much less. I’m not in the identical place they’re in, but it surely’s fallacious. It’s three years. Cease,” Harrelson stated.
The “Starvation Video games” star raised eyebrows Saturday along with his punchline to a long-winded story a couple of “loopy” script he learn.
“So the film goes like this,” Harrelson stated. “The most important drug cartels on the earth get collectively and purchase up all of the media and all of the politicians and pressure all of the folks on the earth to remain locked of their houses. And folks can solely come out in the event that they take the cartel’s medication and hold taking them again and again. I threw the script away.”
The joke was met with close to silence from the in-person viewers — however the at-home viewers was fast to sentence the “Cheers” alum on social media.
“Attention-grabbing how he mentions being anarchist and Marxist however then makes an anti-vax joke,” argued one person. “There are such a lot of horrible issues about massive pharma like insulin costs and the opioid epidemic, however folks as an alternative give attention to vaccines when there’s no proof towards them. I don’t get it.”
“Who accepted this,” asked a second particular person.
“F – – ok you for giving this dude a platform to unfold this anti-vax s – – t. name me a nasty sport or no matter however i don’t suppose it’s humorous once we’re nonetheless within the midst of an sickness that’s nonetheless spreading because of losers like this,” wrote a 3rd particular person.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, in the meantime, known as Harrelson’s monologue a “good one.”
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