This NPR coverage is interesting.
“A lot of people don’t understand how different our demands are from the WGA’s demands,” Bond said.
Bond said unlike the WGA, the actors union represents many types of performers — actors, dancers, stunt people — each with specific needs that need to be addressed.
Artificial intelligence, for example, is an especially existential threat for background actors, some of whom say they’ve already had their bodies scanned for reuse.
So Bond said negotiations with the studios’ trade association, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) could take a while.
“The AMPTP is just going to use every union busting trick that they have,” Bond said.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“I think that we got everything that we really, really wanted,” Writers Guild East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen told the still-striking performers at a rally in New York for the actors union SAG-AFTRA a few days ago.
“We’ve got a great negotiating team,” said actor Jeff Rector, whose credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation and American Horror Story among many other films and TV shows over a career spanning more than 40 years.
“The fact that this deal has been reached, I think really bodes well moving forward for SAG-AFTRA,” said Todd Holmes, assistant professor of entertainment media management at California State University Northridge.
Holmes said the actors union should feel encouraged by the writers’ wins, like higher residuals and protections against being replaced by artificial intelligence.
But SAG-AFTRA strike captain Kate Bond, who’s best known for her role in the reboot of the TV series MacGyver, said she isn’t so certain about a speedy outcome.
So Bond said negotiations with the studios’ trade association, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) could take a while.
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