Fri Feb 10, 2023 – 4:30 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Actor Matthew Marsden doesn’t regret refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine for the sake of a role, he told Fox News host Tucker Carlson this week in a conversation about doing what’s right despite pressure.
“I’ve worked a lot with soldiers, and it’s really difficult for me to say that losing my career is a difficult decision to stand up for what is right when they’ll go, and they’ll die, and they’ll lose everything,” said Marsden, who is best known for roles in the 2001 war film Black Hawk Down as well as action franchises such as Transformers, Resident Evil, and Rambo.
He said he lost out on an acting job for an undisclosed project after his request for a religious exemption for COVID vaccination was rejected, but inspired by the example of the aforementioned soldiers, concluded that his career prospects pale in comparison with what happens if “our freedoms are taken away.”
“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
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