Tue Sep 19, 2023 – 2:58 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Actor and comedian Rob Schneider said last week that he had been fired from the set of a movie in 2021 due to his COVID-19 jab status and praised unvaccinated Christian Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic for putting his career on the line to fight the jab mandates.
“I admire Djokovic greatly for standing up for his rights and not caring what it could cost him,” the former Saturday Night Live comedian said in a Friday post on X/Twitter.
“I was fired off a movie in late 2021 because of my vaccine status,” Schneider shared, though he said he “didn’t go public with it at the time.”
Schneider did not say what movie he had been working on at the time.
The comedian and actor made the comments in reaction to a video about Novak Djokovic’s decision to remain unvaccinated during the height of the COVID-19 panic in spite of the consequences, which included being deported from Australia because the government feared his refusal to get the jab would spark “anti-vaccination sentiment.”
Asked by a BBC reporter whether he was “prepared to forego the chance to
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