Evangeline Lilly Trends For Controversial New Video

By Nathan Kamal | 27 seconds ago

Actor Evangeline Lilly is trending on Twitter, for regrettable reasons. The Ant-Man and The Wasp star posted a video to Instagram recently in which she directly addressed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and implored him to listen with an open mind to the protestors who had until recently been illegally occupying a large area of Ottawa. Those individuals had formed what they called a “Freedom Convoy ” of trucks in protest of Canadian vaccine mandates, a subject that Lilly has already been quite vocal (and unscientific) about. In the over five minute video, Lilly repeatedly characterized the protestors as discriminated against and vilified by “the mass media,” while pushing the idea that we need to do more listening to organized anti-medicine movements while the Covid-19 global pandemic is now in its second year. You can watch the video here:

The “Freedom Convoy” that Evangeline Lilly spends so much time praising was cleared out by Canadian police this week. Although the Lost actor spends a lot of time talking about how these protestors represent countless others across Canada and are filled with only benevolent intentions, their own unions have disavowed them in the strongest of terms. The protest is also heavily linked to right wing extremism and individuals there were spotted displaying well-known symbols of hate speech like Nazi Swastikas and American Confederate flags. Furthermore, far from Lilly’s assertion that the protestors were being treated unfairly, protests by Canadian First Nations frequently are treated with immediate brutal violence, as opposed to the extended time and consideration given to these ones. As you might expect, people on Twitter are mostly not having it with Lilly: