The president chose Donald Trump to make Hollywood “bigger, bigger, and stronger” and tossed Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he calls his “special ambassadors in a giant but very disturbed place, Hollywoodarray and California.
On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town.
“It will be again, like the United States of America, the Hollywood Golden Age!” He wrote in Truth Social.
He also called the trio special envoys. Special ambassadors and envoys are typically chosen to respond to troubled hot spots like the Middle East, not California.
In a press release provided to CBS News on Thursday, Gibson said that “I had received the tweet at the same time as all and so surprised. However, I have the call. My duty as a citizen is to give help and review that I can.
Gibson’s Malibu space destroyed in the wildfires that burned the Los Angeles region.
The production of American cinema and television has been hindered in recent years, with setbacks from the Covvi-19 Pandemia, the Hollywood guild reaches 2023 and, last week, the forest sets on fire in progress in the region of Los Angeles. In the United States, general production fell 26% compared to 2021, according to Data Produro.
In the greater L.A. area, productions were down 5.6% from 2023 according to FilmLA, the lowest since 2020. This past October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed expanding California’s Film & Television Tax Credit program to $750 million annually, up from $330 million. Other U.S. cities like Atlanta, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have used tax incentives to lure film and TV productions to their cities. Actor Mark Wahlberg is even making plans for a Las Vegas production hub.
We do not know with precision what Gibson, Voight and Stallone will do in this effort to bring productions to US representatives for Voight and Stallone did not respond to the request for comments.
Trump’s resolution to choose the actors as their selected “ambassadors” underline their considerations with the 80s and 90s, when he was an emerging sensational star in New York, and Gibson and Stallone were among the largest film stars in world.
Stallone is a frequent guest at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and introduced him at a gala in November shortly after the election.
“When George Washington defended his country, he didn’t know that he was going to replace Global. Because without him, you can believe what the global would look like,” Stallone told the crowd. “Guess what? We had the moment when George Washington. Congratulations!”
The resolution also reflects Trump’s preference to forget the maximum debatable statements of his supporters.
Gibson’s reputation has changed in Hollywood since 2006, when he made an anti -Semitic diatribuño when he arrested for allegedly performed under the influence. But he also continued paintings in customer films and made the next “risk risk” thriller of Wahlberg.
Voight is a long -time defender of Trump, who described Trump the biggest president from Abraham Lincoln.