Dwayne Johnson Donates ‘Seven Figures’ to Support SAG-AFTRA Members

Film stars make millions, but a lot of functioning actors battle to make finishes meet—an situation which is gotten additional recognition thanks to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Even though union users combat Hollywood studios for reasonable contracts, one particular of the most famous performers in the planet is sharing some of his good fortune.

In accordance to a report in Selection, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson has created a “seven-figure donation,” exact quantity not revealed, to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation (“a non-income business linked with the union, but not section of it”), answering a plea sent out to 2,700 of the guild’s highest-compensated users to aid offset economical hardships brought about by the strike. (The union has 160,000 users total, in accordance to the trade, so you can see how unbalanced the scales are.)

“We count on donations and grants to provide products and services,” the group’s govt director Cyd Wilson instructed Range, noting that the team also attained out to its most fiscally solvent associates for assistance in the course of the pandemic. “But when we strike a crisis like this and we’re heading to invest millions and thousands and thousands of bucks in monetary assistance, this is when we need to have our large-profile expertise who can pay for it, who are in a circumstance to help others.”

Added Wilson, “It’s the most significant solitary donation that we have ever received from a single personal at just one time. And what is amazing is that that a person examine is going to enable 1000’s of actors maintain food items on their table, and maintain their young ones protected, and maintain their autos working. And it is not dropped on me that he’s quite humble about this, but it is a way to get us started off.”

Head to Range to read through the full interview with Wilson and SAG-AFTRA Basis president Courtney B. Vance—and here’s hoping other deep-pocketed actors stage up to assistance other individuals in their industry.

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