Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck Getty Photographs(3)
Jimmy Kimmel’s late night time present workers practically acquired a shock present from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck amid the continuing Hollywood strikes.
“Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted me and provided to pay our workers for 2 weeks per week every,” Kimmel, 55, revealed on the Wednesday, August 30, debut episode of the “Strike Drive 5” podcast. “They needed to pay out of their very own pockets, our workers.”
Kimmel confirmed he “did say no” to the supply, explaining, “I felt that that was not their duty.”
Kimmel and his fellow late night time hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver launched their podcast to boost proceeds for his or her staffers as they strike. Colbert, 59, nevertheless, joked that it could have been good to have had some financial assist from Damon, 52, and Affleck, 51.
“Couldn’t you simply say sure after which give your cash to us?” the Late Present with Stephen Colbert host quipped.
Fallon, 48, subsequently identified one other celeb who helps to financially assist their respective staffs: Ryan Reynolds. Kimmel added: “And we’re permitting it as a result of we’re speaking about Mint Cell, which he’s additionally provided Mint Cell service free of charge for a yr to our workers.” (Reynolds’ cellphone firm is among the podcast’s sponsors.)
See Amy Adams, Elizabeth Banks and Extra Stars on the SAG-AFTRA Picket Line
The most important names in Hollywood are displaying their assist for the continuing SAG-AFTRA strike by becoming a member of their fellow union members on the picket strains. In July, the labor union — which represents greater than 160,000 TV and movie actors — voted to go on strike after the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) […]
Late night time exhibits have been off the air because the Writers Guild of America started its strike for honest pay in Could. The group has but to achieve an settlement for brand new contracts with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) — which represents main media firms equivalent to Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount and Sony.
The American Display Actors Guild and the American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) adopted swimsuit and started putting in July, inflicting most Hollywood productions to close down.
Days earlier than the SAG-AFTRA strike started, Damon — who’s had a years-long “feud” along with his BFF Kimmel — referred to as the motion “unbelievably necessary” on the London premiere of Oppenheimer on July 12.
“26,000 bucks a yr is what you must make to get your medical insurance, and there are lots of people who[se] residual funds are what carry them throughout that threshold,” he informed the Associated Press on the time. “If these residual funds dry up, so does their healthcare, and that’s completely unacceptable. We will’t have that, so we acquired to determine one thing that’s honest.”
Each Forged Reunion on the SAG-AFTRA Strike Picket Line
Actors and writers of Us Weekly‘s favourite exhibits and flicks have been reuniting on the picket strains amid the historic WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. The labor dispute initially made headlines in Could 2023 when the Writers Guild of America introduced that their contract negotiation with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers had stalled. […]
Some TV exhibits and flicks whose scripts had been accomplished earlier than the strike or are produced by a manufacturing firm unaffiliated with AMPTP have been granted permission by the unions to proceed filming.
An analogous rule has been utilized to actors. The union has granted interim waivers permitting stars to advertise unbiased tasks not related to AMPTP. Due to this, celebs equivalent to Adam Driver and Jessica Chastain are allowed to attend the 2023 Venice Movie Pageant.
