Because the SAG-AFTRA actors strike enters the fourth week this Friday, many within the occupation are starting to see funds sporting skinny. Then, there are among the greatest actors within the trade, like Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Reynolds, who’re probably greater than financially secure and have extra model offers and companies of their very own to fall again. Because it seems each JLo and Reynolds are a part of a rising checklist of main actors who’ve donated seven figures every to help SAG-AFTRA strikers.
As SAG-AFTRA reported on Wednesday (per Deadline), the Basis’s Emergency Monetary Help Program has already raised over $15 million in current weeks. It additionally reported that many have donated $1 million or extra, and that checklist contains many A-Listers like:
- George and Amal Clooney
- Matt and Luciana Damon
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness
- Dwayne Johnson
- Nicole Kidman
- Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
- Ryan Reynolds and Blake Energetic
- Julia Roberts
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Meryl Streep
- Oprah Winfrey
That’s a depend of 15 actors who’ve donated loads of money to assist out SAG-AFTRA as members look to the muse to assist help them throughout this making an attempt time for the trade. It’s honorable of those individuals to take some cash out of pocket to profit the numerous actors within the trade who don’t have large contracts from film studios for main franchises or have by no means obtained backend bucks for field workplace successes. There are tons of actors on the market who depend on Hollywood as a occupation, however are nowhere as wealthy as these A-list actors.
Together with SAG-AFTRA publicly thanking actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Roberts for his or her large donations, the Basis president Courtney B. Vance had this to share in regards to the information:
The leisure trade is in disaster and the SAG-AFTRA Basis is at present processing greater than 30 instances our ordinary variety of purposes for emergency help… We obtained 400 purposes within the final week alone. Our Emergency Monetary Help Program is right here to make sure that performers in want don’t lose their properties, have the flexibility to pay for utilities, purchase meals for his or her households, buy life-saving prescriptions, cowl medical payments and extra. It’s an enormous problem, however we’re decided to fulfill this second.
Vance additionally shared that Meryl Streep and George Clooney, each of whom launched an announcement about becoming a member of the strikes, have been longtime supporters of the muse together with being leaders of its Actors Council. He stated they every stepped up, not solely with $1 million donations, however by additionally placing out “many calls to motion rallying others to offer generously.”
Whereas these actors are definitely doing their half to assist amidst the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike, you shouldn’t essentially count on them to affix the picket strains. Per an insider, it’s because the richest actors in Hollywood don’t work for scale pay and “don’t want the safety of a greater contract.” Whilst you might not see Hugh Jackman or Ben Affleck on the picket line, we’ve seen different main actors like Daniel Radcliffe picketing along with his new child child, and Oscar nominee Colin Farrell talking out about his collection The Penguin shutting down with picketers.
Together with the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike beginning in mid-July, the WGA writers’ strike has been occurring since Could. Each Hollywood strikes are already shifting the 2023 film schedule and can proceed to close down the film and TV trade till a deal is reached.
