Michael Sheen has written off £1 million ($1.29 million) of debt for 900 people using £100,000 ($129,000) of his own money.
The Welsh star, famed for roles in Good Omens, Twilight and more recently, A Very Royal Scandal, has started a debt acquisition company to help the group in his native south Wales.
The business venture is documented in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, set to air in the U.K. next week.
Sheen’s show aims to reveal how banks and finance companies are profiting from the country’s most vulnerable.
And people are getting into spirals of debt.
It was only when he met a woman in a Port Talbot cafe who told him about “steelworkers in tears” that Sheen decided to see the debt acquisition company through.
The actor said the closure of National Theatre Wales was “incredibly sad, but not a surprise” and that it motivated him to find a solution. »