Ice Cube Loses $9 Million Film Gig After Refusing to Get Vaccinated

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Source: daily beast




The rapper had encouraged mask wearing during the pandemic but has apparently changed tune when it comes to vaccinations.

Updated Oct. 29, 2021 2:48PM ET / Published Oct. 29, 2021 2:03PM ET
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According to sources cited by The Hollywood Reporter, he left the Sony comedy Oh Hell No! after he refused producers’ requests to get vaccinated. The film, which is set to star Jack Black, is scheduled to start production in Hawaii in December. Ice Cube was set to receive a $9 million payout for the production.

The departure is the second film the actor has left since the start of the pandemic, withdrawing from a boxing film that had only shot a day of film before COVID-19 put a pause on Hollywood.

Ice Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, had been a vocal supporter of masking 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.

But some of his tweets offered a mixed view on the seriousness of the virus. In early June last year, he tweeted that doctors should “stop lying about the Coronavirus,” saying the world needs “the absolute TRUTH.” Days later, he tweeted a photo of the “CUE” for the virus, which featured a mocked-up album cover of someone getting a substance implanted through a needle with “Lethal Injection” over the photo.
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The man is a selfish FOOL! He has the opportunity to influence so many fans to get the jab, yet he remains STUPID!

Link to tweet

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[jimfields33]

9. He's worth 160 million

9 million is like a six figure engineer forfeiting a dog walking gig. However, he should get vaccinated.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. I am really failing to drum up any sympathy for this guy.

[BootinUp]

3. too much drugs and partying in his youth?

[padah513]

18. Wow dude

[BootinUp]

26. So you think he's making an intelligent

Informed decision about vaccination?

[maxsolomon]

34. it is not the lingering effects of drug use and you probably know that.

ice cube has always had some fucked up beliefs, but he's also made some great art. he's a complicated man.

it is likely the distrust of the healthcare system and it's legacy of racist treatment of blacks. there is a belief in af-am circles that "they" experiment on black people, due to evidence like the tuskegee syphilis study, and so they're liable to embrace CTs around the CV vax.

or he's a jehovah's witness.

[BootinUp]

36. Yes I have seen explanations

Along those lines before. I have to take it as it is, because I have no personal experience really with black people I know who put it that way.

[maxsolomon]

37. I have glancing familiarity with it.

A couple of my black HS friends occasionally post black-nationalist memes (on the dreaded Facebook) that embrace conspiracy theories. not antivax stuff, though.

I also have black HS friends who roll their eyes at them.

[johnp3907]

4. Moron.

[msongs]

5. I'm mellllllllllllllting nt

[IronLionZion]

6. Bye Felicia

[Skittles]

7. fucking moron

great role model.....asshole

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. He can afford it

Link to tweet

[SouthBayDem]

11. From "No Vaseline" (1991) to "No Vaccine" (2021). Sad.

Here's "No Vaseline" off Cube's 1991 album Death Certificate:

And the lyrics are explained here.

[cadoman]

12. goes from donating masks to an anti science piece of shit?

Glad to hear that Oh Hell No! will be a pro-science set. Thank you Jack Black, for not being a selfish fucking fascist!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

13. Good..less people he'll expose to covid19 ..a neighbor just died of covid

..was an antivaxxer, ecovid denier frumper republiklan..within a week he was dead..left adult children, grandchildren behind, for what? Loyalty to odious-traitor-con#45? Fact is, even #45 isn't that stupid or for that matter racist jerks @fox news, gop aren't that stupid to not get vaccinated..and they're still alive.

Was revisiting..the theory of Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla where he identifies 4 types of people: the helpless, intelligent, bandits and stupid. He concludes that the stupid people group is the most dangerous bc they will do something, believe something with no gain to themselves. Fascinating topic and so relevant to today's current events--even though was written in 1940s? [Will have to look date up to verify;will add link to video on edit.]

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. I agree, the stupid are the most dangerous

The good old Dunning-Kruger Effect. Intelligent people know they don't know EVERYTHING. Stupid people always overestimate their intelligence, and you can't argue with them using logic and facts, because they're STUPID.

[BigmanPigman]

14. What a jackass!

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Keeping it real...

...real fucking stupid.

[Roy Rolling]

16. Oh well

Another run-of-the-mill celebrity who thinks their personal opinions will be applauded as much as the rap performances that gave him his start in show business. The people who bought his albums and saw him in “Friday” etc don’t give a shit what he believes, they just know he’s now an a**hole for turning down a $9 million gig over a shot.

He quits—not because of some deep-seated moral belief—but because of a fucking vaccine shot protest ginned up by right-wing nutjobs. Another actor who misunderstands that people like his performances and not him personally. Once he separates the two it gives people a choice and many choose to think he’s an asshole.

Yeah, this is an intellectual giant, and not pandering to a segment of the audience people like James Woods, Kevin Sorbon, and Chiachi pander to.

[SunSeeker]

17. He's a fucking idiot. nt

[ET Awful]

19. Hey Cube, thanks to your own stupidity, it sounds like (contractually speaking). . .

[Vinca]

20. Ironically, should he get sick, he'll race to the nearest hospital for an IV drip of antibodies

created in a test tube. It's a mystery why people prefer test tube antibodies from their own antibodies which would be made if they got the vaccine.

[yaesu]

21. I think his cheese has done slid off the cracker. nt

[lark]

22. Good!

I will say the exact same thing about every person who is fired for refusing the vaccine - good riddance!

[Paladin]

23. Serves him right for being a clueless jerk. (nt)

[BlueIdaho]

25. Celebrity Tantrum

Whatever…

[ProfessorGAC]

28. He Struck Me As Smarter

But, I guess not.

[LoisB]

29. Me too.

[Marcuse]

30. He believed Trump and allowed himself to be used as an October Surprise.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/ice-cube-trump-partnership-429713

As September wore on, Ice Cube and his advisers continued to lobby the White House during conference calls. On Sept. 14, the performer and his representatives — again not eager to be seen at the White House — quietly met in a Washington hotel with a group of Trump aides including Kushner, Ja’Ron Smith, and Brooke Rollins. Ice Cube's group had prepped for the meeting by consulting with Claud Anderson, a Black economist and author who has argued that African Americans are being served poorly by both parties.

In the following days, Ice Cube's team continued to hash out ideas with the White House and eventually elicited a promise of $500 billion in funding to be included in Trump’s election-year plan.

[obamanut2012]

31. He's a Trumper, too

[Sapient Donkey]

32. Ice Cube? Really?

I have to look that up, because that's first time I've heard that about him. I wonder what causes that. Is it a being extremely wealthy thing? I don't understand that, because even if I was a billionaire, I don't see how I could support Trumpism.

[maxsolomon]

35. Meh, it's not clear.

[Owl]

33. Stupid is as stupid does.