ExploreTalent.com Reports: Scarlett Johansson Resigns as Oxfam Ambassador
(PRWEB) February 04, 2014 -- Scarlett Johansson is one of the top performers working acting jobs in the business today. Her acting talent and charm are indisputable and seem to be increasing every year. This week, however, she has been in the news for different reasons. She recently stepped down as an ambassador of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam).
Oxfam is a charity organization that is devoted to tackling the concern of poverty all over the globe and organizing with indigenous organizations in poverty-stricken areas to deliver aid. The group procures many famous figures as spokespeople and ambassadors. Until this week, one of these was Scarlett Johansson.
The conflict arose when Johansson voiced and displayed her support for SodaStream, a company functioning in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Oxfam opposes all business dealings with organizations in this region and considers it counter to international law. Scarlett Johansson, who is Jewish, supports SodaStream’s endeavors and all peaceful exchange between Israelis and Palestinians. She actually became a SodaStream ambassador. It was this move that prompted Oxfam to take issue with her status as their ambassador as well.
The choice to resign was very hard for Scarlett. Regardless of one’s views, it is uplifting that celebrity would hold and practice such solid political convictions.
Since its debut in 2003, ExploreTalent has become the Internet’s largest resource for actors, models, musicians, dancers, and production crew. Explore Talent’s proprietary cast match technology is the most advanced entertainment-based technology of its kind. It matches a talent’s attributes against tens of thousands of job postings every day. Explore Talent’s unique technology sends casting email alerts and posts auditions and jobs directly on talents’ profiles, saving members hours of time from tedious searching.
Explore Talent has proven to be the best possible destination for talent to find modeling and acting auditions with well over 7.9 million members and over 60,000 auditions, castings, and production jobs listed - 40 times more postings and open casting calls than any other site.
The site's popularity is based on the fact that there are many ways for talents to network, make friends and connect with other industry players, participate in a wide variety of contests and earn prizes for being active on the site. The online community has been responsible for new collaborations and business ventures in entertainment because of opportunities for individuals to network and chat with each other. Furthermore, the Explore Talent site features celebrity videos, exclusive interviews with actors, actresses, and musicians, such as Akon and T-Pain.
Check the link for more commercial modeling auditions.
Daniel Jackson, Explore Talent, http://www.exploretalent.com, 800-934-0000, [email protected]
Share this article