“So for Irish films going forward, many of them often have one or two big cast members that they use to get the money . . . and they’re kind of leveraging their budget around that. 'Those are the ones that I’d be really worried about.'
GALWAY WAS AN unlikely candidate to be among the first cities to feel the impact of the Hollywood actors’ strike, but that’s exactly what happened on Thursday night.
Around the same time, stars such as Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh staged a walkout of the London premiere of historical epic Oppenheimer. Humphreys said the strike could have an impact in Ireland as some higher-profile actors may be members of the guild. “Because the impact here is that when this gets resolved, that actor might be some shooting something else that is equally getting moved.
Paul Fleming, who is general secretary for Equity, told PA: “We do reserve the right to use British legislation to take British industrial action in those sorts of instances and that will be on a case-by-case basis.”
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