Sean Gunn Says He Gets 'Almost None' of the Streaming Revenue for His 'Gilmore Girls' Role as Kirk
17.07.2023 - 15:31
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Sean Gunn, the actor who played the lovable townsman on the hit show, is calling out Netflix for his lack of residual pay. Sean, the 49-year-old brother of Marvel and DC director James Gunn, shared with on Friday that he was out on the picket line for the first day of the SAG-AFTRA strike to mainly «protest Netflix.» The streaming service currently streams all seven seasons of as well as the 2016 revival, . Sean played Kirk in all seven seasons of the show, as well as all four episodes of the revival, both of which star Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as the beloved mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore«I was on a television show called for a long time that has brought in massive profits for Netflix,» Sean told. «It has been one of their most popular shows for a very long time, over a decade.
It gets streamed over and over and over again, and I see almost none of the revenue that comes into that.» notes that though Netflix streams, the residual pay would actually come from Warner Bros. Discovery, the studio that produced and licenses the series to the streamer. Sean also went viral over the weekend for his comments to the about Disney SEO Bob Iger while on the picket line.
Pointing out that Iger makes 400 times more than that of his lowest worker, Sean said, «Is it morally OK? Is it ethically OK that you make that much more than your lowest worker? And if so, why is that OK? And if your response is, 'That's just the way business is done now. That's just the way corporations work now,' well, that sucks and that makes you a s***ty person if that's your answer.» A post shared by AP Entertainment (@entertainment_ap)On July 14, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
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