The well -known British actor Michael Sheen founded a company that deals with the purchase of debts, and then took over and discontinued payment of 900 people with a total value of a million pounds. They are the inhabitants of the city of Port Talbot in southern Wales, in which the actor grew up and then returned here.
Michael Sheen, a British actor known, among others From the roles in the films “Frost / Nixon” and “Queen”, he invested 100,000 pounds from their own funds to set up a company dealing with taking debts. The undertaking is to help the poor in debt residents of the city of Port Talbot in the southern Walesin which Sheen also lives. As the British media write, the company has already taken over and discontinued a long 900 people with a total value of a million pounds. The actor says about people who helped get rid of the debt, says: – I don't know and I will never find out who they are.
Sheen: Then I thought I could help
What he did, the actor describes in detail in the documentary film “Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway” (Michael Sheen is secretly giving a million pounds), realized for the British television Channel 4. The Welsh city of Port Talbot shows the Welsh city, where the last furnace of the local steel plant was switched on five months earlier. – A woman working in a cafe where we made a film, told me the story of men who are losing the work of men, sitting and crying at the tables – quotes the BBC actor. “I thought then, and it realized that I could do something to help,” he added. The document also shows the fight that the actor takes with banks and large financial institutions, which in his opinion exploit people.
In the movie trailer, Sheen declares: – I always wanted to do something great to expose the system injustice. I want to check if I can help people going through a difficult period, but at the same time I want to do something that attracts people's attention.
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Michael Sheen – actor working not for profit
According to “Independent”, Michael Sheen was born in Newport, Wales, but when he was eight, he moved to the Talbot port. He left the city when his acting career gained momentum, but he has lived there for ten years.
In 2021, he decided that he would spend money earned on acting on social purposes. – In fact, I transformed into a social company, into a working actor not for profit (not-for-profit actor)- he said in an interview with the British magazine “The Big Issue”.
Already in 2019, the actor decided on an unusual charity step. When the capital of Wales, Cardiff, withdrew from preparations for the homeless world championships in football. After socially collected money, Sheen sold his two houses to collect two million pounds missing in the budget.
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“Metro”, “The Independent”, BBC
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