British actor Michael Sheen spent £100,000 ($129,000) to write off £1 million ($1.3 million) of his neighbor’s debts.
Sheen wrote off debt to help more than 900 people in south Wales, where he had grown up.
This was part of a two-year project to emphasize issues with the current credit system, which was filmed for an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway.
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Sheen has been focusing on the cost-of-living crisis, which has left 20 million people financially vulnerable, since 2018, when he set up the End High-Cost Credit Alliance.
Much of that focuses on his local community, Port Talbot, where the steelworks’ remaining blast furnaces recently shut.
In one scene of his upcoming documentary, Sheen speaks to a woman in a cafe who tells him locals were crying at tables after a blast furnace was closed. »
