![]() On the scene at the #ActorsStrike / #WritersStrike outside Hudson Yards in NYC /PiWDx9zcca- Deadline Hollywood July 20, 2023Ī group estimated at more than 120 were at Hudson Yards waling the lines including Lee Tergesen, the veteran actor who recalled the labor climate on HBO’s Oz, the premium network’s first series on which he played Tobias Beecher, at a time when broadcast television was the dominant platform. “We’re here today because we’re on a show that has achieved incredible success … but we will not be compensated accordingly, in all fairness.”Īfter saying the Jury Duty team hit a “grand slam” with the success of the show, “we blue-collar actors earn just enough from the most popular show streaming to qualify for insurance benefits for one year – you do the math.” “We represent the typical blue-collar actor the typical union member is lucky if they earn enough in the trade to qualify for health insurance,” he said. Meanwhile, at Amazon Studios in Culver City, the cast and writers of the Freevee series Jury Duty reunited following the show’s haul of four Emmy nominations including for Outstanding Comedy Series.Īlan Barinholtz, the father of Ike and Jon Barinholtz and a longtime attorney who only recently got into acting, spoke on behalf of the ensemble who he said were “unknowns, for all intents and purposes” aside from James Marsden, “who is truly an actual movie star, and a very handsome one at that.” It’s time for more residuals, and it’s time to protect ourselves from AI…” – Dylan McDermott, Dermot Mulroney, SAG-AFTRA #ActorsStrike /lLHNrf2g7N- Deadline Hollywood July 20, 2023 WHY WE’RE STRIKING: “It’s time for wages to increase. So we need to get together and be grown-ups and let’s make a deal.” That’s just to say that they would rather burn the money than work out a deal and that’s wrong as well. The AMPTP for every day now that we’re on strike, they’re losing money and we’re losing money. They toil like you’ve never seen in your life and they still can’t meet their bills or pay for basics and that’s just wrong. He continued, “The rank and file of this industry by and large work 85-plus-hour weeks. ![]() So we’ve painted this picture and this perception that we’re a bunch of spoiled brats that make an inordinate amount of money that really don’t have a leg to stand on and that is wrong and categorically false.” “We tend to focus on the glamorous and glorifying what we do and we’re storytellers, but we’re also quietly terrified to let anybody see that we’re vulnerable because everybody wants to seem very successful. “In fairness, I’ve been trying to put this out there that where we’re culpable as a union and as communicators is that we’ve done a not-so-good job of making people understand what it takes to make film and television shows,” he said.
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