State of the SAG-AFTRA Union with L.A. Local President, Jodi Long
Release Date: 09/15/2023
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Discussed this week:
Jodi Long’s full interview: S4 ep116
NYT on why we should keep killing lantern flies
We saw Barbie Anne saw Oppenheimer on Labor Day
Cillian Murphy and his translucent skin was in Breakfast on Pluto
Kim Cattrall’s (71 second) cameo in And Just Like That in S2
And Just Like That, The Writer’s Room Podcast
Kim Cattrall engraved her own name with “Liverpool’s Cleopatra” next to it on her gravestone
Michael Patrick King is a menace, let’s bring back Darren Star
Michael Patrick King also helped create one of our favorite shows of all time, The Comeback. But Lisa Kudrow doesn’t want to be a mogul like SJP
Why are screen actors (SAG-AFTRA) and screen writers (WGA) striking?
AMPTP is the negotiating organization for the Hollywood studios
Jodi Long was full-body scanned on Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. They own that image in perpetuity.
Reality shows are a different contract and not part of the current SAG-AFTRA
CEO salaries in 2022 for huge networks averaged $32M for 13 CEOas across 12 companies
Actors have to make $26k+ in order to qualify for health insurance (only 12% of SAG-AFTRA actors make that every year)
Hollywood studio CEOS are tonedeaf: Disney CEO Bob Iger / Warner Brothers CEO, David Zaslav
AMPTP hired a new PR person to change the public narrative
Movie studio A24 has agreed to all of SAG-AFTRA’s terms, so they are currently in production while other studios are not
Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey and others are working on waivers because their production companies have met SAG-AFTRA’s demands
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s call to arms
We love pie: ALR-key lime, cherry, blueberry / DB-Banana cream, strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin
Domino’s song “Sweet Potato Pie”
Watch Norma Rae with us!