It is the first time both guilds have walked off sets since 1960, when then-actor Ronald Reagan was SAG’s leader. No talks are planned, and no end is in sight for the work stoppage.
And maybe you should take a look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘Why is that?’” Now Iger “makes 400 times what his lowest worker is. “I think that when Bob Iger talks about what a shame it is, he needs to remember that in 1980, CEOs like him made 30 times what their lowest worker was making,” actor Sean Gunn, who starred in “Guardians of the Galaxy,” said outside Netflix. Many on the picket lines took aim at Disney chief executive Bob Iger, who said Wednesday that the damage the strikes will do to the entertainment economy is “a shame.” The unions also want to put up guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence mimicking their work on film and television. They are concerned about contracts keeping up with inflation and about residual payments, which compensate creators and actors for use of their material beyond the original airing, such as in reruns or on streaming services. The two guilds have similar issues with studios and streaming services. On Thursday, 65,000 members of the actors’ union formally joined them on strike. In recent weeks, many actors made a show of solidarity with the 11,500 writers, who walked out in May. The walkout is the first double-barreled strike by actors and screenwriters in more than six decades.
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