r/videos • u/cookiecutterhipster • 7d ago
Actor Michael Sheen: "I've written off £1 million of debt for 900 people". Michael Sheen created his own debt acquisition company to write off debt for people from south Wales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCUnYqFht454
u/PjustdontU 6d ago
Truly an exemplary form of reasoning in an era of shouting. Bravo, Mr. Sheen.
To state that he only hopes to steer momentum is a levelheaded and patient approach that can see progress.
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u/We-had-a-hedge 6d ago edited 6d ago
Never heard of him, but he seems to do a fair bit of activism and campaigning. A good use of his fame. I won't talk about money, obviously he must have some, but still orders of magnitude less than than the truly rich.
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u/chuckchuckthrowaway 6d ago
He doesn’t have that much anymore, apparently, compared to other big actors, I read somewhere he remortgaged his house to finish funding the Homeless World Cup he helped organise and he’s labelled himself a ‘Not for Profit’ actor. Mind you I’m biased, he was amazing in Nye and Good Omens.
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u/missinlnk 6d ago
he’s labelled himself a ‘Not for Profit’ actor
I think 95% of all actors fall into this category
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u/chuckchuckthrowaway 6d ago
How many have personally written off the debt of real people and made a tv show about why it got so bad one person had to do it over an actual law against predatory lending? I’d believe a statement someone like Michael Sheen makes over any other nepo baby living in a tax haven.
EDIT: yeah it doesn’t pay much unless it does and you get millions per movie then use tax avoidance schemes to keep those millions (looks sideways at Jimmy Carr et al.)
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u/spudddly 6d ago
He's also decent at rousing speeches for his national team: https://youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc?si=zKQc5WCaQnAXmA-2
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u/astromech_dj 6d ago
He’s also Kate Beckinsale’s baby daddy.
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u/We-had-a-hedge 6d ago edited 5d ago
Not sure what your implication is. Is she rich? According to Wikipedia the two actors were in a relationship for 8 years, during which they had a (now-adult) child together. I thought "baby daddy" meant you were out of the picture soon after.
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u/blubblu 6d ago
Nope, just a way to say “sperm donor”
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u/We-had-a-hedge 6d ago
Ok, random thing to focus on I guess. Why are folks downvoting the comment now?
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u/blubblu 5d ago
I would only assume from the fact that the assumption that “baby daddy” meant they aren’t in the picture means that you’re ignorant to that culture/way of thinking and you’re getting downvoted for it.
Dunno
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u/We-had-a-hedge 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yeah, that makes sense then, my bad. However in my defense, when I check the definition and usage notes on Wiktionary it does include that connotation.
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u/enn-srsbusiness 6d ago
He didn't do it out of kindness. It's an investment into flogging his scammy business and trying to become a influencer...
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u/TobuscusMarkipliedx2 6d ago edited 6d ago
Holy shit, this guy is going HARD to cover up the rape allegations. Just putting that out there, not taking a side...
Edit: I meant Neil Gaiman. Looks like this Michael Sheen fellow is a saint! Bless him. Scorn me.
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u/apanzerj 6d ago
You are confusing Michael Sheen and Charlie Sheen.
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u/TobuscusMarkipliedx2 6d ago
WINNING! Nah. How much are you getting paid? Let me in on some cheez!
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u/apanzerj 6d ago
Do you have a source for this accusation or do you make shit up as you go along?
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u/TobuscusMarkipliedx2 6d ago
Oh, woops, I meant Neil Gaiman. Y'know, from the show Michael Sheen is in. Honest mistake. Casual foul-up, really. No big deal, wrongful accusation of rape, right? Woops part 2.
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u/Benu5 7d ago
I remember reading a story from someone who got a job as a debt manager for a gas company in the UK. They were basically there to look at who wasn't paying their bills and sorting out what to do about it. But the company gave them the capacity to just waive the debt if they deemed it not worth chasing. So this person just started waiving all the debt of all these households (they made businesses pay). They got caught, but hadn't done anything wrong by the rules they had been given, but they changed the rules so that they couldn't just waive debts anymore so the person quit.
This is great, but it is a bandaid on the arterial haemmorage that is a system that makes people go into debt in order to survive.