George Clooney says President Trump is “not wrong” that movie productions are exiting Hollywood, but that the solution to luring them back lies in a federal tax rebate, not a tariff on foreign-made films.
“Look, he’s not wrong about the idea that businesses have left Los Angeles. They have, and in droves,” Clooney said in an interview with The Associated Press at the New York Film Festival premiere of “Jay Kelly” on Monday.
“What we need is the… tax incentives that you get here in New York,” the 64-year-old actor said.
“They’re building studios here because there’s so much work. We need those,” the Academy Award winner said.
The comments from Clooney — a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates and a Trump critic — came after the president had hours earlier renewed his call to impose a 100 percent tariff on films made outside the U.S.
“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby,’” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Clooney said rather than a tariff on foreign-made movies, a tax rebate would help the effort to encourage projects produced in the Golden State.
“If he really wants to fix it, then we should talk about a federal incentive passed to keep people working in Los Angeles,” Clooney said of Trump.
“Because there are tons of below the line people — grips and cinematographers — who are losing their jobs because work is going away, leaving to… New York, and Louisiana and places like that, but also to London and other places,” he said.
“So it’d be nice if we had a federal sort of rebate,” he said.
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