As the SAG-AFTRA strike enters its second month with no end in sight, joining the WGA strike that began in May, some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have been taking to picket lines to support the unions.
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#SAGAFTRA Picket Line Interview: #MCU Legend & #SAG, #WGA & #DGA member @ClarkGregg says "I feel like we're kind of fighting to keep the soul in the art form" pic.twitter.com/7SWpjbvqGbGregg wasn’t the only actor on the picket line concerned about AI. Christopher Clawson, another SAG member who also happens to have a master’s degree in innovation and technology from the University of San Diego, hopes to see the unions “come up with a very specific language that will protect performers.”“The thing that scares me is that the studio’s know more about what these capabilities are, than the union,” Clawson said. “Because they’re the ones who get pitched this stuff, you know? They’re the ones with the deep pockets.
And so they’ve seen what this tech can do. It might not be quite ready for primetime now, but in the next two to three, four years tops, it’s gonna be here, you’re not even going to need an actor for a performance.”The threat of AI was also a major sticking point for background actors. Part of the AMPTP’s proposal included perpetual use of an actor’s performance for AI recreation.
In exchange for this, actors would be offered a single day’s pay. “That’s not forward thinking. That’s putting people out of work,” Sue Birch, a SAG member who was protesting at the Netflix and Warner Bros.
Discovery strike in New York, told TheWrap. Birch is no stranger to protesting unreasonable working conditions. As a child, she protested with her father, a New York City public school teacher, and she was part of the SAG and AFTRA commercial strike of 2000.
As the SAG-AFTRA strike enters its second month with no end in sight, joining the WGA strike that began in May, some of Hollywood’s biggest stars have been taking to picket lines to support the unions.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bethenny Frankel says reality stars should take a page out of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes and unionize. She says she believes reality stars should be earning residual-like payments when their series become hits and are replayed by networks and streamers across multiple platforms. Frankel shot to fame on the original “Real Housewives of New York.” She says she was paid $7,250 for the first season, but has never received any compensation based on the show’s massive success. She has a starred in a variety of reality series since “RHONY,” including “Bethenny Getting Married,” “Bethenny and Frederick” and “Bethenny Every After.”
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