Hours before the official strike announcement at a fiery SAG-AFTRA press conference, actors were already joining picket lines in front of Netflix’s Hollywood offices with one resounding message: We’re here for the long haul.
weren’t offered anything close. “These guys want to pay once and then profit off it throughout eternity,” says picketing actor and comedian James Tripp of Netflix, Disney, Amazon, and other studios’ altered residuals structure.
The fight over residual payments was enough to bring many first-timers to the picket line early on Thursday. “[The streamers are] telling us they don’t have the [viewership] numbers.
Without these residual payments—even if meager—being a professional actor becomes infinitely harder, especially given other changes within the industry, such as smaller episode orders from streamers and more limited distribution . These things have had a monumental impact. “The middle class of acting has been completely hollowed out,” says picketing actress Renée Threatte, who has appeared in shows likeand been a member of SAG-AFTRA for more than a decade.
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