This means no on-camera work for film and TV, but also no ADR to replace dialogue, narration for trailers, or voice acting. Particularly after more than 1,000 actors, including the likes of Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Pedro Pascal, and Joaquin Phoenix, signed a letter urging no compromise in their asks of AMPTP.ĭuring the strike, actors are not allowed to participate in any production covered by the AMPTP TV/Theatrical Contracts. SAG-AFTRA members voted in favor of going on strikeĬhris Pizzello/AP Photo Fran Drescher, left, president of SAG-AFTRA, and Meredith Stiehm, president of Writers Guild of America West, during a rally by striking writers on May 8, 2023Įven with the extended deadline, experts predicted it would come to a strike.

We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines and big business, who cares more about wall street than you and your family.' If we don't stand tall right now, we are going to be in trouble. This is a moment of history that is a moment of truth.

The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI. You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored. Our union and our sister unions and the unions around the world are standing by us as well as other labor unions. She continued: 'We stand in solidarity in unprecedented unity. They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment.' How they plead poverty, that they're losing money left and right while giving hundreds and millions of dollars to their CEOS. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. 'We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. 'It came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads.

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