American rapper Ice Cube walked out of the upcoming movie ‘Oh hell no’ after he declined to take the Covid-19 vaccine as requested by the producer of the movie.
He was set to be paid $9 million for the role that was scheduled to begin shooting this winter.
This appears as a contradiction because Ice Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, has been a supporter of putting on of masks throughout the pandemic.
During the height of the Delta variant wave in August, he donated 2,000 face masks to a college in Oklahoma.
He also sold shirts encouraging mask-wearing in April 2020, shortly after the pandemic started.
The rapper is yet to say anything about this.
Ice cube is not the first public figure or celebrity who has openly been against the vaccine.
Rapper Offset also dismissed the vaccine.
"I don't trust it," the Migos star said, pointing out a photo of four Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine volunteers who developed Bell's Palsy. "I just don't wanna be the test dummy," he said.
In one of Summer walker’s recent posts, she writes, "Stay the f**k away from people who were vaccinated."
Elon Musk, who previously questioned the validity of COVID-19 tests, was also doubting the vaccine before he contracted the virus in November 2020.
He told the New York Times in September that he won't take the vaccine because "I'm not at risk for COVID, nor are my kids."
The Tesla founder, however, has since changed his mind after apparently having done his own research on the safety of the vaccine.
"To be clear, I do support vaccines in general & covid vaccines specifically," he tweeted earlier this month, adding, "The science is unequivocal. In very rare cases, there is an allergic reaction, but this is easily addressed with an EpiPen."
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