Actors on strike over pay and the threat of AI are vowing to outlast Hollywood execs in 'ivory towers': 'They've already been starving us.'
Both groups are protesting against the Alliance for Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association that negotiates on behalf of Hollywood's employers. In recent days, a narrative has emerged that the AMPTP is attempting to besiege both unions, till their members are forced to buckle under financial pressure.
"They've already been starving us," she said."We're getting paychecks that are pennies for residuals or not at all," she added —"something that people forget when they're sitting in their ivory towers." But in press interviews and at picket lines across Los Angeles on Friday, Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA's executive director and lead negotiator, have continued to slam the AMPTP's offers and repeat a mantra from her Thursday morning remarks:"The jig is up."Protections offered by the AMPTP have done little to assuage the fears of people like Sam Russell, a 45-year-old actor and newcomer to SAG-AFTRA who got his union card last year.
But what worries Russell the most is speculation that AI tools could give AMPTP companies the power to cut down background artists' pay or replace them altogether."That closes the door for people like me in the future trying to break in," he said.
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