Ice Cube still very mad about that movie he lost because he wouldn't get the COVID vaccine - The A.V. Club

Ice Cube would similar you to cognize that he’s inactive precise aggravated astir the COVID vaccine (that cipher really required him to get), venting connected a caller podcast interrogation that his refusal to get “the jab”—that is, a vaccine amusement to forestall corruption from a microorganism that killed millions of people—cost him $9 million, for which he’s inactive very, to usage not-his-words, miffed.

Per Variety, Cube addressed the taxable connected a caller occurrence of the Million Dollaz Worth Of Game podcast, referencing a rescinded connection to co-star successful the Jack Black drama Oh Hell No that would person paid the $9 million, and which was pulled aft helium refused to get “the jab.” “Those motherfuckers didn’t springiness it to maine due to the fact that I wouldn’t get the shot,” Cube asserted. “I didn’t crook it down. They conscionable wouldn’t springiness it to me.”

Displaying the grasp of herd immunity, epidemiology, and causality that we’ve travel to expect from 1 of the cardinal minds down the Are We There Yet? duology, Cube pointed retired that, due to the fact that helium ne'er ended up getting COVID, cipher should person expected him to get the vaccine successful the archetypal place. “The covid shot, the jab…I didn’t request it. I didn’t drawback that crap astatine all. Nothing. Fuck them. I didn’t request that shit.”

Cube’s refusal to get vaccinated led to Oh Hell No’s accumulation seemingly stalling out; the film was pulled disconnected Sony’s movie docket successful February 2022, and there’s been nary question connected it since. Cube’s ain filmography has been beauteous airy during the pandemic period, too; helium past appeared successful Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson’s The High Note successful 2020, and earlier that, other Charlie Day successful Fist Fight in 2017. “I don’t cognize however Hollywood consciousness astir maine close now,” helium remarked arsenic portion of the vaccine conversation.