Hollywood actors including George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone and Tyler Perry are pushing SAG-AFTRA to end the strike. The information is from Variety magazine.
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As a result, according to the publication, some stars, including those already mentioned, held a Zoom meeting last Tuesday afternoon (17) with Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the executive director of the union.
Despite supporting the strike, the stars also showed a lot of dissatisfaction with the failure of the latest negotiations.
“We meet with members of all backgrounds every day and will not comment on these private conversations,” a SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said Tuesday. Clooney’s representatives did not respond to a request for comment.
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Thus, according to Variety, the union is asking for the release of US$500 million per year for payments, which actors and other professionals receive when the works in which they participate are shown on streaming. Meanwhile, studios are only willing to release $20 million.
As a result, both sides of the negotiation are already close to a middle ground on other issues, such as the use of artificial intelligence in audiovisual productions and the increase in salary levels for actors.
Namely, residual payments were also a key issue in the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike, which officially concluded earlier this month. However, the writers’ union (WGA) settled for a much lower payment — $5 million a year — from the studios.
