According to the president of the union Foundation, more than 15 million were raised in the last three weeks. Contributors include George Clooney, Leo Di Caprio, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts.
Renowned stars within Hollywood performed large donations to support out-of-work actors for the strike. According to the Union Foundation (SAG-AFTRA) in the last three weeks more than 15 million dollars have been raised.
A group of celebrities including George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey, among others, contributed $1 million or more each, according to It was reported in an official statement.
Thanks to the support of some of Hollywood’s highest-earning stars, the Foundation is preparing to provide help and hope. The Emergency Financial Assistance Program is intended for “thousands” of actors experiencing financial hardship, the foundation said in a statement.
Other big names appearing on the list of donating stars include Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Meryl Streep and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson were instrumental in launching the relief campaign for striking Hollywood actors.
“The entertainment industry is in crisis and the SAG-AFTRA Foundation is currently processing more than 30 times our usual number of requests for emergency aid. We received 400 applications in the last week alone,” said Courtney B. Vance, the president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, in a statement.
He added: “Our Emergency Financial Assistance Program is here to ensure that artists in need do not lose their homes, have the ability to pay for utilities, buy food for their families, buy life-saving prescriptions, cover medical bills and more. . It is a huge challenge, but we are determined to face this moment.”
The Foundation revealed that “Dwayne Johnson helped launch this campaign with a historic seven-figure donation” and that “two leaders on the Actors Council, Meryl Streep and George Clooney, stepped forward with $1 million donations, emails and many calls to action to encourage others to give generously ”.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation indicated that George Clooney was another of the Hollywood figures who contributed a large amount. Photo Ina Fassbender/AFP
“We have crushed our initial goal because our people are coming together, but we are not done yet,” he warned.
According to statements by the president of SAG-AFTRA, Fran Drescher, collected by The New York Times, 86% of the union’s 160,000 members earn less than $26,500 a year.
What do the actors want?
On July 13, Hollywood actors’ union leaders voted to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down entertainment industry production, after negotiations for a new contract with Hollywood failed. studios and streaming services.
SAG-AFTRA calls for higher salaries, higher residual payments and protections around the use of artificial intelligence. In response, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, brought to the negotiating table “historic salary increases and residuals and a groundbreaking artificial intelligence proposal that protects actors’ digital images for SAG members.” -AFTR”.
It is the first strike by film and television actors since 1980. And it is the first time that two major Hollywood unions have gone on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the actors’ union.
With information from AFP.
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