Actor Woody Harrelson appears to be in favor of endorsing presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken anti-vaccine advocate.
On Thursday, RFKâs wife, actress Cheryl Hines, posted a smiling selfie with her former Wilson co-star Harrelson, whoâs wearing a blue Kennedy 2024 hat.
âGreat seeing you Woody,â Hines captioned the post, but many commenters werenât as cheered. âMy enthusiasm is curbed,â one person wrote, referencing Hinesâ role on the Larry David sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. âOh God dammnit...not Woody...â another person wrote.
In July, Kennedy told reporters that he believed COVID-19 may have been ethnically targeted, a stance that has been characterized as a white supremacist notion. âCOVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people,â he said at the time. âThe people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.â
Harrelson, unfortunately, has a history of backing outlandish conspiracy theories himself. In 2020, the actor shared a post on Instagram that linked the outbreak of COVID-19 to the installation of 5G networks in Wuhan, China. He also posted video of 2019âs protests in Hong Kong with the caption, âMeanwhile the Chinese are bringing 5g antennas down.â
And while hosting Saturday Night Live earlier this year, Harrelson told an incoherent story about a movie script he once read that alluded to his vaccine skepticism.
âSo the movie goes like this,â Harrelson told the audience. âThe biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartelâs drugs and keep taking them over and over.
âI threw the script away,â Harrelson continued. âI mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.â