George Clooney, critics for Donald Trump. The actor agrees, however, on a topic with the US President
George Clooney, photo: DIA DIPASUPIL / Getty Images / Profimedia
Actor George Clooney said the threat of US President Donald Trump to impose a 100% customs duty on all films abroad is a wrong solution to a real problem, according to Reuters.
Clooney says President Trump “does not make mistakes” when he states that film productions leave Hollywood, but that the solution to attract them consists of a reduction in federal taxes, not in a tax applied to foreign films, notes News.ro.
“Look, he does not make mistakes when he says the companies left Los Angeles. They left, and in large numbers,” Clooney said in an interview with Associated Press at the premiere of “Jay Kelly” at the New York Film Festival.
“We need … tax facilities, such as the ones you benefit from here in New York,” said the 64 -year -old actor.
“Studiuri are built here because there is a lot of work. We need them,” said the winner of the Oscar.
Clooney's statements, an old supporter of Democrat candidates and a critic of Trump, came after the president renewed his call to impose a 100% fee on the films outside the US.
“Our film industry has been stolen from the United States by other countries, as is stolen” candy from a child “, Trump wrote in a post on social networks.
Clooney said that instead of a tax on foreign films, a tax reduction would help encourage the projects produced in the Golden State.
“If he really wants to solve the problem, then we should discuss a federal stimulant adopted to keep people at work in Los Angeles,” Clooney told Trump.
“Because there are a lot of people behind the rooms – technicians and filmmakers – who lose their jobs due to the disappearance of jobs, moving to … New York, Louisiana and other similar places, but also in London and other places,” he said. “So it would be good if we had a kind of federal tax reduction,” he said.
