Current Events > Actors are on strike now? Give me a fucking break.

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These guys and gals get paid literally tens of millions of dollars to act in a movie. What more do they want?

These guys and gals get paid literally tens of millions of dollars to act in a movie. What more do they want?

So are you a machine that makes idiots or a particularly stupid machine?

Millionaire actors successfully strike to improve their living situation while the minimum wage worker at K-Mart continues to be homeless.

Pretty sure there's more actors than just the top billed ones making millions.

Pretty sure there's more actors than just the top billed ones making millions.

Do you think the entire Actor's Guild is made up of like <50 A listers?

Because I sure hope not, that would be incredibly foolish of you.

All the movies and series youve seen, have you noticed theres a lot people BESIDES the main actors?

You mean extras? Literally anyone can do those roles.

Are they going on strike for the same reasons the writers are?

These guys and gals get paid literally tens of millions of dollars to act in a movie. What more do they want?

You mean extras? Literally anyone can do those roles.

You mean extras? Literally anyone can do those roles.

Extras are people in the background or the barista serving the detective a coffee with one line.

Yeah, didn't character actress Margot Martindale have to rob a bank or something?

I'm not 100% on this but I think anyone with a speaking role has to be a guild member, extras do not if they don't have lines.

What more do they want?

Millionaire actors successfully strike to improve their living situation while the minimum wage worker at K-Mart continues to be homeless.

Have to? For what?

A huge chunk of it is ownership of their own likeness. Studios want to have perpetual ownership of their likenesses and it's use via AI.

• residuals for streaming based on viewership
• AI regulations (as well as not using it to recreate an actor's likeness after the fact)
• regulations against/addressing self tapes. They want auditions to be in person again (this is actually a major point that most people outside of the industry aren't talking about)

• residuals for streaming based on viewership (overlap w/ SAG)
• AI regulations. No AI in the script writing process (some overlap w/ SAG. Same overall issue, but different specifics, meaning different language in each contract)
• "Preserving the writers room". That's how it was written in the WGA pattern of demands and this might actually be the biggest sticking point for the WGA. The two major parts are:

1. breaking up mini-rooms that stop new writers from breaking in and seasoned writers from moving up
2. lengthening the contract length to ensure that screenwriting does not continue down the path to a gig economy

• obviously, none of the above
• for the tech companies, and likely the biggest sticking point in all, is the residuals on viewership. This would require them to release their viewership numbers which they have vehemently refused to do, likely because it gives some insight into a not as successful business model as their other metrics have suggested
• regarding AI: they do not want this off the table in perpetuity. They see the opportunity to cut out labor and desperately want to protect the chance to do so

It's more that the working class always gets screwed in this country, so it's really hard to feel sympathy for anyone in Hollywood right now. Like for example, one company in Walmart decided to drastically reduce most pay nationally and go back to pre-Covid rates. No stories on that ever mentioned, and it effects so many more Americans.