Dwayne Johnson makes ‘historic’ donation to charity helping striking actors | Ents & Arts News

Dwayne Johnson has made a “historic” donation to the Display Actors Guild – American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) Basis as members of the union proceed to strike.

The wrestler-turned-actor is reported to have made a seven-figure donation after the SAG-AFTRA Basis – a charity related to the union, however not a part of it – issued a plea to its highest-earning members.

The charity organises monetary reduction to the union’s 160,000 members who’ve been on strike since 2 Could after in search of larger pay and safeguards in opposition to unauthorised use of their photographs by means of synthetic intelligence (AI).

SAG-AFTRA Basis president Courtney B Vance and government director Cyd Wilson informed Selection that Johnson’s donation has the potential to “support hundreds of actors”.

“It is the most important single donation that we have ever obtained from one particular person at one time,” Mr Wilson stated, including that individuals will have the ability to preserve meals on the desk, preserve their kids secure and their vehicles working.

The precise quantity that the Moana actor donated stays unknown.

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On social media, the Basis thanked Johnson for his “extraordinary generosity and historic donation”, hoping that it might encourage different high-profile members to comply with go well with.

Having began the strike formally on Friday 14 July, there’s nonetheless no finish in sight.

It’s the first time in 63 years, that each SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are on strike at the same time.

Members of the WGA have been striking for the last two months, which has already had a big effect on productions equivalent to season five of Stranger Things, season two of The Final Of Us, season six of The Handmaid’s Story and Recreation Of Thrones spinoff A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight.

On 21 July, a bunch of British stars led a protest in London to indicate their solidarity with each actors and writers on strike within the US.

SAG-AFTRA have claimed that after 4 weeks of intensive talks, movie and TV bosses have refused to compromise on well being and pension plans.

However the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) – the affiliation representing main Hollywood studios together with Walt Disney and Netflix – stated earlier this month {that a} deal, together with higher pay and AI safeguards, had been provided, and accused the union of strolling away from talks.