Jimmy Kimmel revealed that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck offered to pay out of pocket to support the staff of his late-night show amid the Hollywood strikes
The biggest names in Hollywood are showing their support for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike by joining their fellow union members on the picket lines. In July, the labor union — which represents more than 160,000 TV and film actors — voted to go on strike after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers […]began its strike for fair pay
in May. The organization has yet to reach an agreement for new contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — which represents major media companies such as Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount and Sony. The American Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists followed suit andDays before the SAG-AFTRA strike began, Damon — who’s had a years-long “feud” with his BFF Kimmel — called the movement “unbelievably important” at the London premiere of“26,000 bucks a year is what you have to make to get your health insurance, and there are a lot of people who[se] residual payments are what carry them across that threshold,” he told...
at the time. “If those residual payments dry up, so does their healthcare, and that’s absolutely unacceptable. We can’t have that, so we got to figure out something that is fair.”By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from USWeekly
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