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At 62, Sean Penn is a committed actor who has supported many causes. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
Asked in Cannes about the movement currently paralyzing Hollywood, the American star judges “indecent» the lack of consideration of the big Hollywood studios towards the screenwriters on strike.
The lack of consideration of major Hollywood studios towards writers on strikeEast “indecent“American actor Sean Penn judged Friday in Cannes, bringing his”full support” At the move.
Thousands of American television and film screenwriters began a strike action on May 2 due to the failure of negotiations with the main studios and platforms relating in particular to an increase in their remuneration.
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They are also demanding minimum guarantees to benefit from stable employment and a greater share of the profits generated by the rise of streaming.
Asked about this strike which currently crippling Hollywoodthe actor and director felt that “it’s the industry that has crippled writers, actors and directors for a long, long time“, adding bring a”full supportto the screenwriters.
“There are a lot of new concepts being thrown around, including the use of artificial intelligence (to write scripts). It seems to me indecent that there is a kind of disinterest on the part of the producers“, added the actor to the poster of”Black Flies“.
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At 62, Sean Penn is a committed actor, who has supported numerous causes and notably visited Ukraine where he shot a documentary presented in February in Berlin.
In Black Flies directed by the French Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, presented Thursday evening in competition at Cannes, the viewer follows the daily life of New York paramedics, Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) and Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn), confronted with the violence of a city that never sleeps.