Hollywood A-listers donate millions to striking actors

LOS ANGELES: A dozen of Hollywood’s highest-earning stars, from George Clooney to Meryl Streep, have each donated $1 million or more to support out-of-work actors as their strike enters its fourth week, their union’s charitable foundation said Wednesday.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) walkout, and another strike by film and TV writers that began in May over pay and the threat of artificial intelligence, have brought US film and television production to a halt.

The Hollywood “double strike” of writers and actors — the first since 1960 — has cost the entertainment industry and the California economy several million dollars per day, as well as costing the striking unionists their paycheques.

But wealthy A-list celebrities, from Clooney and Streep to Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, as well as Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Oprah…