Writers, actors, and pets alike picketed together as SAG-AFTRA joined Hollywood’s historic strike.
with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Like their sister guild, SAG-AFTRA is negotiating for wage increases, better healthcare, and clearer guidelines around AI. Additionally, SAG actors want to establish rules around the expensive and time-consuming COVID-born trend of self-tape auditions. Vulture visited the pickets at Disney and Warner Bros.
“Fuck these people. Fuck these people who are fucking billionaires,” said comedian Jon Daly, echoing a common sentiment across conversations and picket signs all over Hollywood. “The scanning of background actors that they’re talking about today is just the beginning. And this is just the beginning of how labor will deal with AI. And this is just the beginning of our fight. We’ll continue until we get a fair deal. I’m saying very generic things, but I fully believe them.
AI threatens not only background actors , but also the livelihoods of the crew that would normally support those actors. “You don’t need costumes, you don’t need PAs, you don’t need crafty, you don’t need transpo,” said actor Megan Rosati. “You don’t need the whole ecosystem of production that actors provide for everybody else.” The WGA and SAG want to get ahead of AI, better than they did with streaming negotiations.
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