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Jon Voight Gives First Interview on Trump’s Bombshell Film Industry Tariff Proposal: We Can’t Let Hollywood ‘Go Down the Drain Like Detroit’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Jon Voight has spoken out for the first time about Trump's bombshell Hollywood tariff announcement, saying the U.S. has to become more competitive.
The Academy Award-winning best actor can’t remember the exact year, but he thinks it was not long after the debut of Franco Zeffirelli 1979 sports classic “The Champ.” The two men bonded over the film and Voight’s iconic performance as a former boxer looking for personal redemption by returning to the ring. For a town accustomed to bombshells, President Trump’s post on Sunday that called for 100% tariffs “on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands” sent shockwaves through Hollywood and beyond. How Hollywood got to this point, where the U.S. film and TV economy began to freefall as studios opted to shoot in Canada, the U.K., Hungary and Australia over Los Angeles and domestic hubs like Atlanta and New York, was inevitable, Voight says.
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