Several Hollywood actors have called for a boycott of Georgia\u2019s film industry after Republican Brian Kemp officially won the state\u2019s gubernatorial contest. There are over 20 productions shooting\u2026<\/b>
\nSeveral Hollywood actors have called for a boycott of Georgia\u2019s film industry after Republican Brian Kemp officially won the state\u2019s gubernatorial contest.
There are over 20 productions shooting in Georgia.
Is the entertainment industry willing to support the economy of a totally corrupt state that suppresses democracy; where the winner isn\u2019t the best choice for the people but the best schemer or crook?
\u2014 Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 17,2018
To all my friends who are studio and network executives, if you choose to shoot movies and tv in Georgia, don\u2019t bother to call me. https:\/\/t.co\/gtIKNJBhNF
\u2014 Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) November 17,2018
The hashtag #boycottgeorgia began to trend after Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic state representative and romance novelist, announced Friday that she would no longer challenge the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s election results. While Abrams acknowledged Kemp would be the winner of the election, she refused to call her speech a \u201cconcession\u201d because a \u201cconcession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper.\u201d
Before Kemp was certified as the official victor, actors were already threatening to boycott working in Georgia, a state with a large film industry that\u2019s been dubbed the Hollywood of the South.
Brian Kemp is a corrupt, homophobic, unapologetic disenfranchiser of African American voters. If he seizes power, Hollywood needs to use it\u2019s leverage and pull out of Georgia. Studios need to put their money where their mouth is and stand up to hate. #boycottgeorgia
\u2014 Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) November 8,2018
Hundred percent agreed.
Billions of Hollywood dollars spent and created in GA. We can do something about this. #boycottgeorgia https:\/\/t.co\/S4AIxboFR4
\u2014 steven pasquale (@StevePasquale) November 8,2018
The reaction from Hollywood comes after Abrams has continued to argue, without evidence, that Kemp purposely suppressed black voters while he led the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office. Abrams mounted several lawsuits over the election results and repeatedly declared she wouldn\u2019t admit defeat until every vote was counted.
Abrams has since responded to the calls for a boycott, saying that while she appreciates Hollywood\u2019s calls for action, she does not want them to hurt people who make a living in the state\u2019s film industry. Instead, the Democratic politician wants them to get involved in a new voting rights organization she is launching called \u201cFair Fight Georgia.\u201d
I appreciate the calls to action, but I ask all of our entertainment industry friends to support #FairFightGA \u2013 but please do not #boycottgeorgia. The hard-working Georgians who serve on crews & make a living here are not to blame. I promise: We will fight \u2013 and we will win.
\u2014 Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) November 18,2018
In a Sunday morning interview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, Abrams refused to call Kemp a \u201clegitimate\u201d governor and claimed there was \u201ca deliberate and intentional disinvestment and I think destruction of the administration of elections in the state of Georgia.\u201d
Abrams said during the interview that she plans on running for office again.
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