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”.
Voight, a former leading man turned ardent Trump supporter who was given the made-up designation of “ambassador to Hollywood” by the president, along with Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson, declined to provide specifics or logistics for the plan that has raised many…