Yesterday, the actors filed two lawsuits against the authorities.
Svetlana Bojković, Gorica Popović, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Nikola Kojo, Sergej Trifunović, Gordan Kicić, Marko Janketić, Branislav Trifunović and Milan Marić filed a group lawsuit against SNS MP Nebojša Bakarec, due to the statement in which he stated their alleged earnings.
Actor Nikola Kojo filed a lawsuit against Maja Gojković, the vice-president of the Assembly and the minister of culture, also because of a statement about actors.
Last week in the Parliament of Serbia, Bakarec mentioned by name how much money the aforementioned actors received from Telekom for television series, and previously he did the same on his Twitter account, while Maja Gojković, reacting to Nikola Koja's comment regarding the SNS meeting, said, among other things, that he "twists the facts in order to hide and underestimate the support of the Government of Serbia and the current authorities to film workers, which was practically non-existent until 2012".
"Enough is enough!" It's high time to react to all that incitement and everyday hatred," Branislav Trifunović told the "Vremena" portal. "They poisoned and divided the people enough, now let's see how they will answer in court."
The very fact that they filed a lawsuit against the MP, says Trifunović, shows that they trust the prosecution.
"Of course I heard what the Prime Minister said about Bakarec's statements against the actors, but I want to believe that the court is not influenced by the authorities and will act according to the law."
And Brnabić, let's recall, said that "it's completely clear that someone shouldn't address actors like that", and then she added "we made a mistake, we're human, we make mistakes".
In the lawsuit against Nebojša Bakarec, the actors listed several items. Trifunović says that "even if the amounts of our fees that he stated were correct, he was not allowed to state them publicly. Contracts are secret. Just in that one move of his there are two grounds for a lawsuit."
Trifunović says that Bakarec's statement that the state "sponsors" actors is unworthy of comment, and especially his message that "they are all free to act and will not be honored."
"I have no words for such statements. Who are they addressed to and what are they for? We know what incitement achieves. That's enough. We kept quiet because we thought that their rudeness would go away on its own, but it turned out that it continued and intensified. Well, he can't."
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