Striking actors are hopeful that SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers can reach an agreement — 2½ months after the performers went out on strike.
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, white cap front, and the union’s national executive director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, left, greet picketers at Netflix in Los Angeles on July 14.Monday for the first time in 2½ months to resolve thorny issues that prompted the actors’ walkout in mid-July.
“We’re just tired,” actor Parvesh Cheena said Monday while picketing outside Amazon Studios in downtown Culver City. “We’ve been here every day since Day 1 of the writers’ strike in May and every day since the actors’ strike began on July 13. ... But we’d rather be going back to work like everyone else.”
How did talks between actors and studios collapse, resulting in the first strike under the film and TV contract since 1980?But SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, most famous for her role as “The Nanny,” has sought to temper expectations that the union would rush to accept all of the provisions of the WGA contract, telling CNN last week that “one size doesn’t fit all.”“The WGA and SAG-AFTRA are fighting for different things,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz said that actors need better regulations around these self-recorded auditions, including longer turn-around times when they are required to memorize dozens of pages of a script.False starts, secret talks: Insiders tell how the writers’ strike ended with ‘Let’s make a deal’ Iger’s appearance galvanized writers and actors on the picket lines, who portrayed the CEOs as privileged and out of touch. Actors said they could barely afford to live in expensive film hubs like Los Angeles and New York.‘We can’t pay our rent.’ Actors on the picket line reveal harsh reality of trying to make it in Hollywood“How do you deal with someone like that who’s so tone deaf?” Drescher asked in follow-up interviews.
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