Coronavirus: Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming Call for Income Support for U.K. Creatives
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hollywoodreporter.comRichard E. Grant and Alan Cumming are among a group of British stage and screen stars calling on the U.K. government to provide an income guarantee for beleaguered creative workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Peter Capaldi, Mel Giedroyc, Simon Russell Beale, David Tennant, Gemma Atkinson, Cush Jumbo and Alison Steadman are also among the more than 13,000 who have signed the petition by U.K.
actors' union Equity, joining a growing chorus of those urging the government that has already announced it willpay 80 percent of the wages of employed workersto do the same for self-employed freelancers, who make up a vast chunk of the creative sector. “I know the deep danger the U.K.’s government are putting the self-employed in if they do not give.
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