Their hopes of more financial help are pinned on the actor, but they have been unable to reach him.

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Even while the film was in post-production, the actor says he was still on call to handle "financial stuff".

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They maintain that when consumers can no longer consume and corporations are locked out of the credit markets, the government is the only actor in the economy that can save us all from financial Armageddon.

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