Actor Matthew Marsden says he lost role for refusing COVID vaccine: People have to say 'enough'
'Reacher' star slammed the rule as 'anti-science' on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
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Actor Matthew Marsden blasted Hollywood for "completely anti-science" reasoning after losing an acting gig in recent weeks over his refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Marsden told Tucker Carlson that there is a lack of willingness to call out the rationale behind the ongoing COVID vaccine requirements.
"We all know about the effectiveness or the non-effectiveness of the COVID jab at this point," said Marsden, who appears in Amazon's "The Reacher" series, calling it "ridiculous Kabuki theater."
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"I got offered a job… and they said there was still a requirement that you had to be vaccinated. I informed them that I was not vaccinated, and I submitted a religious exemption, and it was, of course, dismissed and that's that."
The 49-year-old British-American actor who starred in the "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "Rambo" and other films, called out the rule for lacking sufficient reasoning because the vaccine does not stop the spread of the virus.
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"If you can be infected as someone who is unvaccinated, you can just as well be infected if you are vaccinated, so the argument that [the unvaccinated] are going on set and getting everyone vaccinated sick on set, is just a moot point at this moment," he said.
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"I didn't become a citizen of this country to have my First Amendment rights and my other rights [taken away]… for me to have to worry about having to lie about something like having a vaccine, I think it's an invasion of privacy. I don't think it's right," he said, adding that he will not lie about his vaccination status or use a fake vaccination card.
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Marsden, pointing to the highly controversial and long-standing COVID-era lockdown and masking policies, asked "where does it stop?"
"Standing up for what you believe is right, and I believe that, if more people did it, then they'd have nowhere to go and these things would stop, and they'd start changing their policies. There has to be a point where people say ‘enough.’"
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