“F— that jab, and f— y’all for attempting to make me get it.”
Greater than a yr after it was first reported, Ice Dice has confirmed that he dropped out of a $9 million payday over the COVID-19 vaccine.
The actor confirmed the October 2021 reviews on the most recent “Million Dollaz Value of Recreation” podcast, admitting, “I do not understand how Hollywood really feel about me proper now.” His reps declined to touch upon the preliminary story.
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Ice Dice Walks Away From $9M ‘Oh Hell No’ Paycheck After Refusing Vaccine: Report
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“I turned down a film as a result of I did not wanna get the motherf—ing jab,” Dice admitted on the podcast. “I turned down $9 million as a result of I didn’t wish to get the jab. F— that jab, and f— y’all for attempting to make me get it.
He went on to make clear that it isn’t a lot that he turned down the provide however that “them motherf—ers would not give it to me as a result of I would not get the shot.”
Within the preliminary report, THR said that the venture was a comedy with Jack Black known as “Oh Hell No.” He and Black had been on board for months earlier than producers requested the forged be vaccinated.
In line with THR on the time, the manufacturing was delayed as a seek for Dice’s alternative started. Now, Deadline reviews that there was no additional developments since that point, so it is unclear the movie’s present standing.
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Supposed to be directed by “Dangerous Journey’s” Kitao Sakurai, “Oh Hell No” would have instructed the story of what occurs between pals Sherman (Black) and WIll (Dice) when Sherman falls in love with Will’s mom.
As for Dice, he stands by his choice to not get vaccinated. “The Covid shot, the jab, I did not want it,” he mentioned. “I did not catch that s— in any respect. Nothing. F— ’em. I didn’t want that s—.”
In the course of the pandemic, Ice Dice was lively in serving to cease the unfold of the illness. In Could of 2020, he began a T-shirt fundraiser to help first responders on the entrance line.
He bought a line of shirts depicting himself, carrying a masks, with the caption “Examine Yo Self Earlier than You Wreck Yo Self.”
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“I wish to do one thing cool for the primary responders,” he instructed THR on the time. “We have actual heroes on the market placing their lives on the road who will not be getting a variety of recognition.”
“You give cash, you get a cool T-shirt. You push the trigger,” he mentioned, assuring he made zero revenue from it. “The whole lot goes to the primary responders.”
However the next month, he posted a cryptic tweet concerning the coronavirus, accusing docs all over the world of mendacity; he didn’t elaborate on what precisely they had been mendacity about:
Docs of the world: Cease mendacity concerning the Coronavirus. The individuals wants absolute TRUTH.
— Ice Dice (@icecube) June 9, 2020
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