Scarlett Johansson called on her Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) colleagues Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira, Mark Ruffalo and Paul Bettany to encourage their fans to vote for Kamala Harris in a new video posted on Downey Jr.’s Instagram page on October 31.
“Scarlett, we are so happy to be united and vote together in this election,” Danai Gurira said in a video call.
In the video, the cast begins delivering superhero-themed quotes for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
After some clever ideas, including Kamala Forever – a play based on Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther series – the stars settled on: “Support Kamala Harris, support democracy.”
The cast has appeared together in several MCU films, culminating in the blockbuster Avengers: Endgame (2019), which grossed approximately $644 million at the global box office in its opening weekend and went on to gross a total of $2.8 billion worldwide.
The Avengers cast’s reunion comes as the race between Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump heats up with just four days to go before the election. They are the latest celebrities to endorse the Harris-Walz ticket.
Meanwhile, “Terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican and former governor of California, said on October 30 that he would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz.
“For someone like me, who is willing to speak to people all over the world, calling America the trash can of the world is unpatriotic and makes me angry. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That is why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Schwarzenegger said in a post on X.
The famous actor criticized Donald Trump and said that the former president’s second term would make people “more and more angry, more divided and more hateful”.
“Trump will be more divisive, more insulting than he has ever been before. We, the people, will get nothing but anger,” Schwarzenegger said.
Last week, Mr Trump said America was “like a trash can to the world” as he criticised illegal immigration at a campaign rally in Arizona.
After the former president emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination last year, Schwarzenegger spoke to CNN ‘s Dana Bash and predicted that Trump would lose the 2024 election because the Republican Party had dug itself into a hole when Trump became party leader.
“It’s sad to see that. They can’t bring in a new talent, a new face, a smart, clear, knowledgeable person who can lead this country in a Republican way,” Schwarzenegger told Bash.
The feud between the two dates back to Mr Trump’s first term, after Schwarzenegger took over the highly rated show The Celebrity Apprentice in 2015. Mr Trump mocked Schwarzenegger’s show The New Celebrity Apprentice for low ratings in 2017, and Schwarzenegger left the show that year.
In a post on October 30, Schwarzenegger wrote: “I want to move the country forward and although I have many disagreements with them, I think the only way to do that is to work with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
