Oscar -winning actor behind the price of Trump's film: Hollywood cannot “ descend the drain as Detroit ''
Academy's winner actor Jon Voight has long been one of President Donald Trump's main supporters.
These days, he worked for him on an official basis as a special advisor in Hollywood alongside Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.
Sunday. Trump announced that he planned to implement 100% prices “on all the films entering (the) country produced in foreign land. Consequently, many in the industry have sought comments from Voight, which would have directed the plan of the plan.
In a Interview published by Variety On Wednesday, the 86 -year -old film legend expressed his support for Trump's proposed price, but not without taking a random shot in the largest and most important city in Michigan.
“It happened to a point where we really need help and thank God that the president cares about Hollywood and films,” said Voight, who described Trump as a movie buff and a pop culture enthusiast.
“He has a great love for Hollywood in this way. We have to roll up our sleeves here. We cannot drop him into the drain like Detroit. ”
We do not know why Voight took the random shooting in Detroit, who fought against crime and has become the largest American city to file for bankruptcy in 2013, but has since experienced a renaissance and has inverted many negative trends over the past decade.
Many observers have stressed that it is possible that Voight compares California cinema to the Michigan automotive industry and negative impact automats leaving Detroit had on the well-being of the city.
Anyway, whoever is behind Detroit's X account noticed.
Trump, Voight and their allies want to keep cinema in homes like Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta instead of places like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom
Trump's announcement on Truth Social that “the film industry in America dies of a very rapid death” was encountered by some of skepticism and negative titles, but Voight told Variety that the reaction was not aligned with what he heard of a “wide range of interests” in the industry.
The production of American cinema and television has been hampered in recent years, with setbacks of the Pandemic of Covid-19, Hollywood Guild in 2023 and forest fires in the Los Angeles region earlier this year.
Los Angeles has specifically experienced a 40% reduction in films production in the past decade, According to the Hollywood Reporter
“Other nations have stolen the capacities for the realization of films in the United States,” Trump told the journalists in the White House on Sunday evening. “If they are not willing to make a film in the United States, we should have a price on the films that enter.”
Tuesday, Deadline has published a version project From a plan created by Voight with producer Steven Paul to keep cinema in the United States, he included a federal tax incentive of 10% for film and televised production, associated with an American “cultural test” similar to what is happening in the United Kingdom.
VoIight said he was in contact with people from all aspects of the film industry, both republican and democrat.
“It should not be political. I do not know the political identities of the people we talked about. We talked to a lot of people here,” he said.
“I do not distinguish them on their party affiliation. And if we can find (a plan that can be executed), he (Trump) will support us. He wants us to be the Hollywood of yesteryear. If we all get together, I think we have a brilliant future. ”
Voight, the father of A-Lister Angelina Jolie, is a Hollywood legend. He appeared in films since the 1960s, winning four Oscar nominations and a victory for his representation of a paraplegic veteran of Vietnam in “Coming Home” of 1978.
In 2019, he received the National Medal of Arts and Films in which he appeared reported more than $ 5.2 billion worldwide.
