Two brave actresses met very different fates for speaking out against the jab in Hollywood

While Evangeline Lilly kept on working, Drea de Matteo was forced out of her profession

Both invoked the principles of free choice and bodily autonomy; but both were also right on scientific grounds—as is apparent from what’s happened to some others who appeared in The Sopranos.

Evangeline Lilly Questioned Posting Anti-Vaccination Rally Photos, Says ‘Ant-Man’ Director Dismissed Firing Rumors

The 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' star said she shared those photos because she wanted people to know they "had a right to say no," and that Marvel doesn't try to control her personal stances: "I think there needs to be a divide between your professional life and your personal life."

February 19, 2023

… Speaking to the 2022 post, Lilly told the magazine that she had questioned whether to publish it “about 600 times,” knowing that it might stir backlash. “I know the beast that I’m attacking,” she recalled thinking. “I know that I have a little pebble and there’s this fucking Goliath giant. If I shoot this pebble, it’s going to wake the giant.”

… In her post last year, Lilly said her attendance at the rally — the same event that anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made headlines over by comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust [sic] — was in support of “bodily sovereignty” as someone who was “pro-choice before COVID and I am still pro-choice today.”

“I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of violent attack, arrest or detention without trial, loss of employment, homelessness, starvation, loss of education, alienation from loved ones, ex-communication from society … under any threat whatsoever,” she wrote at the time. “This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/evangeline-lilly-anti-vaxx-rally-marvel-firing-rumors-1235330015/

Scroll down for some tragic evidence that Drea de Matteo made the right decision for herself and her family.

'Sopranos' Star Drea de Matteo Sounds Off on Dr. Fauci

September 15, 2023

Former The Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to the president who was regularly the face of the government's response to the pandemic, after he said vulnerable Americans should get the updated COVID vaccine shot.

Appearing on the Adam Corolla Show podcast on Thursday, the actress said she joined adult subscription platform OnlyFans, which often contains content that is not safe for work, to make money after getting shunned by Hollywood for her anti-vaccine comments at the height of the pandemic.

"They want to do it again," de Matteo said, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday recommending that Americans should get the updated Covid vaccine. "Public enemy number one, that other Italian. The real f...... mafioso, I'm not going to say his name, the little tiny Italian, [Fauci]."

COVID-19 hospitalizations have been steadily increasing in the past several months, but are still considered low in about 92 percent of the country, according to the CDC. There were 18,871 admissions in the week ending September 2, an increase of 8.7 percent from the previous week.

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the latest shots from Moderna and Pfizer for most Americans.

In an interview on ABC's This Week that aired on Sunday, Fauci said that those who are vulnerable to the virus, such as the elderly for instance, should get the shots.

"But I believe we should give the choice to people that are not in the high-risk groups, to have the vaccine available for them," Fauci said. "We have experience with this type of vaccine in billions of people. It's a safe vaccine."

Newsweek has contacted Fauci and Drea de Matteo by email.

Drea de Matteo said her agent dropped her during the COVID pandemic, when she was vocal against vaccine mandates, and she turned to OnlyFans to make money.

"I guess you could say I was a bad girl because I did not follow the rules a couple of years ago," she said. "So, I don't want to be at the mercy of mandates or strike or anything like that ever again."

She said her children encouraged her to join OnlyFans, where she regularly posts photos.

"My kids were the ones that were like, 'Do it,'" de Matteo said, explaining that her daughter helps create the content. "She'll edit the pictures, too, because they want certain things that we haven't been able to do."

"I figured, 'OK, so everybody's in their underwear and being sexy on Instagram and I don't do that, but I can do that and get paid for it.'...I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner."

De Matteo won an Emmy in 2004 for portraying Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos. On the podcast, she spoke about the shock of leaving behind her acting career.

"I didn't know this was going to have to be a change of life, you know, all of a sudden that during a time I'm supposed to be relaxing a little bit, that I would have to switch careers and figure new things out because my own industry thinks I'm, you know, a savage," de Matteo said on the podcast.

"I know some people have said some nasty things about me having joined OnlyFans. But, you know, the way we see it in this house is mommy's a warrior, not accepting defeat."

https://www.newsweek.com/sopranos-drea-de-matteo-covid-vaccine-fauci-1827301

'Sopranos' actor Tony Sirico dies at 79

July 9, 2022

LOS ANGELES — Tony Sirico, who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in "The Sopranos" and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including "Goodfellas," died Friday. He was 79.

Sirico died at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said his manager, Bob McGowen. There was no immediate information on the cause of death.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/1110670719/sopranos-tony-sirico-dies-paulie-walnuts-obit

Who was Paul Herman and how did he die?

March 30, 2022

GOODFELLAS star Paul Herman has passed away at the age of 76.

The actor from Brooklyn, New York died on his birthday on March 29, 2022.

Paul Herman was best known for his roles in The Sopranos and in the Goodfellas.

He also played Randy in the 2012 Silver Linings Playbook and Whispers DiTullio in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.

The actor's cause of death is currently unknown.

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/5008419/who-paul-herman-died/

Sopranos actor John Ventimiglia’s daughter died suddenly aged 25

January 20, 2023

Sopranos actor John Ventimiglia’s daughter Odele has died three months after giving birth at the age of 25.

Odele’s mother, Belinda Cape, shared the news in a recent Facebook post, writing that she and her family are “heartbroken” over the unexpected loss, which came shortly after welcoming her granddaughter, Shiloh.

“Heartbroken to have to post our darling Odele’s funeral notice. Her sister Lucinda and I have been overwhelmed by the messages of support and love we have received, and your remembrances of how cherished Odele was to so many,” Cape wrote.

Odele’s cause of death has not been shared.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-kids/sopranos-actor-john-ventimiglias-daughter-died-suddenly-aged-25/news-story/d8cfe8044f6598f6913a5eff640eeba0