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Woody Harrelson, actor of “Natural Born Killers” ascended for the fifth time to the stage of Saturday Night Live (SNL) as host of the program. In the show he surprised everyone with a controversial opening monologue.
The actor ironized about a supposed film proposal that comes into his hands to make a shameless criticism of the pharmaceutical industry and governments during the coronavirus pandemic.
The artist began his speech by describing himself as a person “anarchist, marxist, ethical hedonist, discriminatory empath and epistemological deconstructionist Texan”.
Later, the 61-year-old actor commented that the film he was talking about had “the craziest script” he has ever read, referring to the covid-19 pandemic and anti-vaccine theories.
“So the movie is like that… The biggest drug cartels in the world unite and buy all the media and all the politicians. They force everyone in the world to stay locked up in their homes“, said.
To continue the anti-vaccine monologue, Harrelson insisted: “People can only get out if they buy the drugs from the cartel and keep taking them over and over again. i threw away his scriptWho would believe this crazy idea? Forced to use drugs? If I do that voluntarily all day.”
The actor has always been skeptical on the subject of vaccines and the coronavirus disease. In 2020, he was linked to conspiracy theories about covid-19, assuring that the use of masks to avoid massive infections was “absurd.”
Likewise, on one occasion he used his Instagram profile to share a publication that accused 5G network antennas of spreading the coronavirus; the post was deleted minutes later.
Despite the controversial speech, Harrelson received a “SNL’s Five Timers Club” jacket at the end of the episode, given to him by Scarlett Johansson to acknowledge his stint on the late-night comedy show.
The actor’s words went viral on social networks where opinions of all kinds were crossed. One of the most striking was that of Elon Musk.
The Tesla CEO and the owner of Twitter used their social networks to applaud Harrelson’s statements and congratulated the chain, without giving further details about his opinion: “Very successful. Good job, NBC.”
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