Letitia Wright.Photo: Dave Benett/Getty Images
Letitia Wrightis reflecting on what she has learned during the course of theCOVID-19pandemic.
Varietyspoke with the 28-year-oldBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreveractress Sunday at Kering’s Women in Motion dinner during theCannes Film Festival, asking her about her October 2021return to Instagramafter an almost year-long break.
Wright’s last post on the platform was Nov. 30, 2020, before she went on hiatus until October the following year. She took her break from social media shortly afterretweeting an anti-vaccination video.
“And that’s exactly what I’m doing and I’m so proud of myself and the movie that’s coming out this year. I’m so proud of it,” she added.
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Wright — who was reportedlyinjured on the set ofWakanda Foreverin August 2021, and returned to filming this past January — retweeted a video from the YouTube channelOn The Table, which expressed anti-vaccination viewpoints, in December 2020. In the clip, host Tomi Arayomi voiced unsubstantiated claims about the dangers ofreceiving COVID-19 vaccines.
Responding to the discourse surrounding her post, Wright tweeted, “If you don’t conform to popular opinions. but ask questions and think for yourself … you get cancelled 😂.”
In a follow-up tweet, she wrote, “Myintention was not to hurt anyone, my ONLY intention of posting the video was it raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are putting in our bodies. Nothing else.”
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In Wright’s first post as she returned to Instagram, she shared a Bible verse that read, “Weapons made to attack you won’t be successful; words spoken against you won’t hurt at all.”
Black Panther: Wakanda Foreveropens Nov. 11.
Multiple large-scale studies have found that vaccines are safe.There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
source: people.com
