Letitia Wright, known for her role as Shuri in Black Panther, has deleted her Twitter account following the controversy surrounding a video she posted by a vaccine skeptic.
As reported by Variety, last week on December 3, the 27-year-old actress posted a clip from a lengthy YouTube video posted by the channel, On The Table.
The video sees presenter Tomi Arayomi, a senior leader with Light London Church and speaker, cast doubt on the use of vaccines.
Check out this interview with Letitia Wright on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show:In one part of the clip, Arayomi says, per the Independent: "I don’t understand vaccines medically, but I’ve always been a little bit of a skeptic of them."
Wright shared the clip along with the praying hands emoji.
Variety reports that in the full video, Arayomi appeared to be skeptical of climate change, accused China of spreading COVID-19, and made transphobic comments.
"These are the dangers of the world we're entering into today, where if you say a thing enough times people will actually believe it’s true," Arayomi said, per Variety.
He continued:
"This kind of science by convenience where I’ll believe in science when it’s convenient to global warming, but I won’t believe in it when it’s convenient to gender, when it inconveniences my particular ideology, is the very reason why, if you’re working in the UN, World Health Organization, or the mass news or dial media heads, the reason the public doesn’t believe you."
Fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe star Don Cheadle responded to the controversy by referring to the video as "hot garbage".
He said: "Jesus… just scrolled through. hot garbage. every time i stopped and listened, he and everything he said sounded crazy and fkkkd up. i would never defend anybody posting this. but i still won’t throw her away over it. the rest i’ll take off twitter. had no idea [sic]."
Wright initially responded to the backlash by saying: "If you don't conform to popular opinions. [But] ask questions and think for yourself… you get canceled."
She wrote in a follow-up tweet: "My intention was not to hurt anyone, my ONLY intention of posting the video was it raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are putting in our bodies. Nothing else."
After this tweet, she deleted her Twitter account entirely.
YouTube has since taken down the video for "violating YouTube’s terms of service."