Here’s a look at the figures who brought on the walk-off of actors and screenwriters, and who have the power to send them back to work
Her name is little known outside the industry, and she nearly never speaks to the media, but as head of the opposition in both the writers and actors strikes, Carol Lombardini is arguably the most important single figure in Hollywood’s labor stoppage.
A respected if adversarial figure in years past, she has become the target of much of strikers’ vitriol. She appears often on picket signs and is the subject of many parody social media accounts.Ellen Stutzman was the one sitting across the table from Lombardini in the failed negotiations that led to the writers strike. It is not a seat she expected to occupy when the year began.
Generally regarded as more low key and less combative than Young, Stutzman played a key role in writers’ 2019 fight with agents, in which WGA members fired their representatives en masse over plans by Hollywood’s major talent agencies to expand into production. The union also sued the agencies, calling the potential move a conflict of interest and a violation of antitrust law. That battle – which the writers won – in some ways served as a dress rehearsal for the current strike.
As CEO of Warner-Discovery, David Zaslav, for strikers, embodies the entertainment executive who shifts away from elite creative programming toward reality TV and other less vaunted programming, most manifest on Max, the streaming service that under his watch dropped “HBO” from its name. Drescher was re-elected last week as president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television, a job she’s had since 2021.
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