Ethan Suplee knows practice makes perfect, especially in the gym. The "My Name is Earl" actor posted words of affirmation along with a workout selfie where he showed off his toned muscles on Instagram.
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Veteran TV comedy showrunner and member of the WGA Negotiating Committee Danielle Sanchez-Witzel (My Name Is Earl) worked the guild’s picket line at Netflix on Day 1 of the writers strike. She spoke with Deadline about how the negotiations broke down,
DEADLINE: Danielle, what was it like in the room in the final hours?
SANCHEZ-WITZEL: I think that the main takeaway is what didn’t happen in the finals hours, which is we didn’t get a fair deal. And I think that’s what we’re there to do. We’ve spent the last six weeks wanting it, trying to get it, and I think what we found was that we were being devalued by the studios, and we’re not going to be okay with that. We’re not going to roll over and say, it is what it is. We fought in 2007-08, I was part of that fight.
And we’re here now. It’s not something that we want to bring to the town. We recognize that it’s a heavy thing to do, but we were left with no choice, so we’re here to say we want our fair share, which it feels very reasonable to us.
DEADLINE: Last night, when the guild put out a statement and then a note that went out to members, they said that WGA was seeking increase in pay and benefits by $429 million over three years, but the studios only offered $86 million, that AI they didn’t want to talk about; the difference was so wide. What was their mentality? Do you think they wanted a deal or do you think they thought they could bluff you guys out?
SANCHEZ-WITZEL: I can’t speculate I wasn’t in the room and I can’t speculate on what their thought processes and what they’re doing. I can only tell you about my thought process and our thought process. We’re united, 97.85% of us voted yes on the strike authorization vote they gave me and us as a negotiating
Ethan Suplee knows practice makes perfect, especially in the gym. The "My Name is Earl" actor posted words of affirmation along with a workout selfie where he showed off his toned muscles on Instagram.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Directors Guild of America is continuing its negotiations with the AMPTP, as companies hope to get a deal that could play a role in ending the two-week-old writers strike. Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America told members Monday that the guild is winning the “PR war” against the studios, as members share their stories in the media. “It seems the whole world is on our side,” wrote Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, a WGA East vice president, in an email to members titled “Our Momentum Grows.” “Members’ individual stories of our broken system — of getting by on ten weeks of work a year, of residual checks amounting to pennies — are resonating with the public. They understand we are losing out on the middle-class American Dream. We are not the elite. We are just like them. We are them.”
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strikes for the first time since 2007-08, more details are being released over what exactly led to the impasse in its talks with Hollywood studios on a new bargaining agreement. In its statement announcing the end of talks, the studios’ labor representatives, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, said that “mandatory staffing,” and “duration of employment” were the “primary sticking points” when it came to the failed negotiations.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike.