Evangeline Lilly Gets Backlash From Marvel Fans For Vax Mandate Protest
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Evangeline Lilly is getting backlash from Marvel fans over her attendance at a vax mandate protest. Lilly first rose to stardom with her role as Kate in ABC's hit mystery series Lost, for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and would rise to further prominence with her roles in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker and Shawn Levy's Real Steel. Following her work in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, Lilly would make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in 2015's Ant-Man as Hope van Dyne, daughter to scientist and original Ant-Man Hank Pym.
Lilly would carry the role through the film's 2018 sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, in which she was given a more prominent role and became the titular hero alongside co-star Paul Rudd. She returned for Avengers: Endgame, in which her character was brought back to life after having been snapped out of existence by Thanos at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. Audiences have been eager to see Lilly's Wasp return in the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, though the MCU threequel may now see its anticipation stunted.
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As the Omicron variant surges across the country, Evangeline Lilly took to Instagram to reveal she attended a vaccination mandate protest, expressing in the post's caption her belief of being "pro choice before COVID" and "still pro choice today." Marvel fans have subsequently responded with backlash on social media, expressing disappointment in Lilly's apparent anti-vaccination stance and comparing her to fellow MCU star Letitia Wright. See Lilly's post and some fan backlash below:
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