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06.11.2023 - 23:41 / deadline.com
As SAG-AFTRA and the studios continue to go back-and-forth with proposals to reach a new contract and end the nearly six months long strikes, Zachary Quinto spoke about the individual consequences of the labor action.
Taking to social media for the third time in less than 24 hours, the Star Trek star today responded to the feedback he received from “below-the-line colleagues” since his Instagram video yesterday in which he expressed his doubts about the “last, best, and final offer” put forth by the AMPTP to actors, and insisted his fellow actors “hold strong” for a better deal and not cave.
Quinto acknowledged that the below-the-line folks who’ve been out of work for several months “are tired” and “really struggling.”
As Deadline has reported continually the California economy has seen a $6.5 billion loss from the double WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes with 45,000 jobs in the entertainment sector lost. In addition to below-the-line workers being unemployed, several studios have cut their staffs including Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, ESPN, Paramount, Conde Nast, Spotify, Fifth Season, Vice, Lionsgate and Roku.
“I hear you, I empathize with you and I recognize as a person in the public eye, who is beating a drum for hold the line I can be a lightning rod for the argument ‘That’s easy for you to say. You’re not being asked to sacrifice nearly as much as we are’ and there is a validity to that argument, I understand that,” said Quinto in response to below-the-line workers.
Quinto defended that he “made significant contributions to the Motion Picture Television Fund” and encouraged his followers to do the same.
“This is not about me. This is not about getting richer. This is about protection for all us,”
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