George Clooney Leads A-List Actors in Offering $150 Million Fund for SAG-AFTRA Dues

Stars aim to get talks back on the table and end the strike by supporting working actors.

Yesterday’s under wraps talk between SAG-AFTRA leadership and Hollywood’s elite actors has been revealed to be an offer to lend a hand to working class talent within the union from those in the limelight. The conversations led by George Clooney, fellow Batman Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johannson, Tyler Perry and Emma Stone among others are presenting an offer to put up $150 million toward dues to eliminate the costs to AMPTP signatories.

In a statement to Deadline, Clooney said, “A lot of the top earners want to be part of the solution,” he explained . “We’ve offered to remove the cap on dues, which would bring over $50 million to the union annually. Well over $150 million over the next three years. We think it’s fair for us to pay more into the union. We also are suggesting a bottom-up residual structure—meaning the top of the call sheet would be the last to collect residuals, not the first.

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