After the company goes out of business, Tom Hardy offers to pay the crew more than $300,000 for their new series
When a construction business recruited a crew of contractors to work on the actor’s new Paramount+ series, they were originally not paid.
Heroes, at least if you’re Tom Hardy, are occasionally covered in venom rather than wearing capes.
According to The London Times, the 47-year-old actor allegedly offered to reimburse set workers who had been building sets for his new Paramount+ series, the Guy Ritchie-directed Fixer, for lost wages totaling £250,000, or roughly $315,000. This was after the construction company that hired them went out of business.
A leaked WhatsApp conversation from the week of December 9 showed that Helix 3D had no money to pay the workers, who were hired as contractors by the construction company, even though they finished the sets this past summer.
According to reports, the experience forced Hardy to step up and contribute money to pay the employees so they could get their overdue salary in time for the holidays.
A person close to the actor told the Times, «He offered to [pay].» «However, Paramount and the production have worked out the payment.»According to a second Paramount source who spoke to the Times, the studio was «outraged» to hear about the issue and acted right away to make sure the contractors were paid, working with the show’s production company 101 Studios.
Before Paramount and 101 Studios made their financial pledges, Chris Hudson, a representative of the broadcasting union that represents the set workers, wrote a letter that the Times was able to receive in which he expressed his disgust and rage on behalf of
