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Adrian Horton

Jon Voight defends Trump’s film tariff plan: ‘Something has to be done’

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Jon Voight in 2024. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Jon Voight, the actor who inspired Donald Trump’s surprise statement about placing a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, has given his first interview on the supposed plan to “give people back their dignity and their jobs”.

“Something has to be done, and it’s way past time,” the 86-year-old actor told Variety while he was, according to the magazine, “driving through what sounded like a car wash”.

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