Evangeline Lilly arrives on the premiere of "Avengers: Endgame" on the Los Angeles Conference Middle on Monday, April 22, 2019. (Picture by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Evangeline Lilly mentioned she attended a rally towards vaccine mandates in Washington, DC, final weekend -- the identical occasion the place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invoked Nazi Germany and Anne Frank in a speech.
The "Ant-Man and the Wasp" star, in an Instagram put up, mentioned she attended the rally to "assist bodily sovereignty" and that she believes "no one ought to ever be pressured to inject their physique with something, towards their will, underneath the specter of ..." and listed a number of phrases, together with lack of employment and violent assault.
"I used to be professional selection earlier than COVID and I'm nonetheless professional selection right this moment," she mentioned, including hashtags together with "#medicalfreedom," "#bodilyautonomy" and "#defeatthemandatesdc."
Lilly didn't reference Kennedy's feedback in her put up. In the course of the occasion, Kennedy, a longtime vaccine opponent, in contrast COVID-19 vaccine necessities within the U.S. to circumstances in Nazi Germany and mentioned folks residing underneath Nazi rule "might disguise in an attic, like Anne Frank did." (Kennedy later apologized for invoking Frank's identify, and his spouse, actress Cheryl Hines, condemned the remarks.)
Lilly's feedback about COVID-19 have offended followers earlier than. In March 2020, Lilly apologized for an Instagram put up about taking her children to a camp because the pandemic started in North America and feedback she made about how "some folks worth their lives over freedom, some folks worth freedom over their lives."
Lilly mentioned on the time that "regardless of [her] intense trepidation over the socioeconomic and political repercussions of this plan of action, PLEASE KNOW I AM DOING MY PART TO FLATTEN THE CURVE, PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCING AND STAYING HOME WITH MY FAMILY."
CNN has contacted Lilly's representatives for remark.
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