And so it continues on.
Aug. 26th, 2023 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452The recent scheduled meeting with the WGA and AMPTP turned out to be a failure, as the WGA reports (and gave furthering updates on what occurred), since it wasn't a negotiation it was, and I quote from the above WGA statement directly: " [...] this wasn’t a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave [...] This was the companies’ plan from the beginning – not to bargain, but to jam us. It is their only strategy – to bet that we will turn on each other."
And so, the strike continues on, as members of the WGA and SAG say that they are digging their heels in harder.
In general, I think this strike has brought a lot of awareness as to how workers in Hollywood/the entertainment industry are often mistreated, including actors. Most people tend to have this common misconception that actors are immediately rich, that because they appear on our screens and getting gig after gig they are paid handsomely and therefore this doesn't affect them. (Or, y'know, most likely don't care at all, just watch them on screen and that's it.) But it does. So many actors have come forward addressing the issues that they face, including how a lot of them have had to get a second and third job just to pay monthly rent because they aren't paid enough (and what they are paid they have to divide with those around them, like their managers and whatnot). Unlike big name A-listers, most actors live in squalor* for a lot of their careers. Unless you are someone who does work in the industry, aspiring actor or otherwise, a lot of what happens behind closed doors isn't well-known, and as unfortunate as what caused this strike to occur in the first place it has created this sense of disillusionment as more information comes out of how writers and actors are being treated, the conditions they work under, and why this strike is important to not just them but to every single worker in the industry.
(* It reminds me of the harsh truth of MTV's Cribs where most of those homes featured of music artists and celebrities weren't real, fabricated by producers, making it appear that the artists lived a more glamorous life than they actually did in order to sell that image to the audience.)
And so, the strike continues on, as members of the WGA and SAG say that they are digging their heels in harder.
In general, I think this strike has brought a lot of awareness as to how workers in Hollywood/the entertainment industry are often mistreated, including actors. Most people tend to have this common misconception that actors are immediately rich, that because they appear on our screens and getting gig after gig they are paid handsomely and therefore this doesn't affect them. (Or, y'know, most likely don't care at all, just watch them on screen and that's it.) But it does. So many actors have come forward addressing the issues that they face, including how a lot of them have had to get a second and third job just to pay monthly rent because they aren't paid enough (and what they are paid they have to divide with those around them, like their managers and whatnot). Unlike big name A-listers, most actors live in squalor* for a lot of their careers. Unless you are someone who does work in the industry, aspiring actor or otherwise, a lot of what happens behind closed doors isn't well-known, and as unfortunate as what caused this strike to occur in the first place it has created this sense of disillusionment as more information comes out of how writers and actors are being treated, the conditions they work under, and why this strike is important to not just them but to every single worker in the industry.
(* It reminds me of the harsh truth of MTV's Cribs where most of those homes featured of music artists and celebrities weren't real, fabricated by producers, making it appear that the artists lived a more glamorous life than they actually did in order to sell that image to the audience.)
