Nor was there to be a face-saving mea culpa. Instead, she posted on Twitter: “If you don’t conform to popular opinions, but ask questions and think for yourself… you get cancelled,” then parted ways with her US representatives. One thing’s for sure: the publicity tour is either going to be memorable or non-existent. And the same goes double for Death on the Nile, in which Wright stars alongside Russell Brand, who’s spent the last year monetising his own anti-vaccine views on YouTube.

To most young British performers who dream of breaking into the business, this attitude might seem incomprehensible. But celebrity self-righteousness, when not kept in check, can throw down Japanese-knotweed-like roots. The rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube was due to shoot the buddy comedy Oh Hell No with Jack Black in Hawaii over the winter, but when producers stipulated that every cast and crew member should be vaccinated, he walked away from the project, and the $9 million salary that came with it. 

And Rob Schneider, star of Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo, has also trumpeted his vaccine scepticism on Twitter, describing the injection as “unapproved experimental gene therapy” and urging his one million followers to “Just say no… and keep saying no”.

In all brutal honesty, the chance of Schneider being paid $9 million for anything these days was already slim. But don’t expect his peers who value their careers to pipe up in his, or anyone else’s, defence.