Strike Hollywood: Dwayne Johnson makes a (very) big check to support the movement

From July 13, the actors joined the writers’ strike – which began on May 2. Hollywood is almost at a standstill. If Barbie and Oppenheimer give the box office a run for their money, all filming is halted and the stars leave the preview red carpets.

Big names like Dwayne Johnson are stepping up to help the most vulnerable in this social movement. Comedian would make a donation”HistoricalBy seven figures at SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild. The exact amount remains confidential.

Obviously, personalities like Dwayne Johnson are not the first victims of this strike, which has nothing to do with the social movement of the privileged. variety Recalls that 87% of the 160,000-member union’s members cannot afford the $26,000 annual salary to get health insurance.

97% of people in the industry do not work regularly

Dwayne’s donation funds the strike fund, which was created to help SAG-AFTRA members who are currently unemployed but still have to make ends meet.

In an interview with Variety, actress Courtney B. Vance, president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, recalls that “97% of people in the industry do not work regularly“.

On Dwayne Johnson’s donation, he responds:I want to thank him for his great generosity, compassion and willingness to act in such an important way for our community. Out of thousands of people it will help, thank you, thank you, thank you.“

We remind you that the demands of the strikers mainly refer to the emergence of artificial intelligence, which significantly threatens the profession, but also to the impoverishment of copyrights after the arrival of streaming platforms. Screenwriters have not started a strike for 15 years, as for actors, the last social movement of this scale dates back to … 1980.