SAG-AFTRA strikers outside Netflix want the streaming giant to lead the charge in giving employees fair wages and protections
Smith said she was working on a romantic comedy for Amazon before the writers’ strike started on May 1. She and the other writers “raced to turn the script in” prior to the strike in hopes that the film could still go into production this summer, but all of that came to a halt. Smith was also joined on Tuesday by her mom Kati who flew down to Los Angeles from Seattle to show up to Netflix in person and support her daughter and other striking writers and actors.
“I just hope that we can get a fair contract sooner than later and not have it drag through the winter because what I’m worried about are all of the talented young writers out here, and older writers, and how can we survive if this goes on all the way to the end of the year?” Smith said. “I don’t want to lose all the great talent we have to a strike, and it already feels like it’s beginning to happen.
Actors Sarah Paulson and Josiah Jackson, also known as Jackpot, walk on a picket line outside Netflix studios on July 25, 2023, in Los Angeles.Jessica Lamour said she was at Netflix on Tuesday because was a writer on their series, which premiered in September 2021, and believes the streamer can do better when it comes to the residual payments they distribute to writers.
Lamour’s friend Chivonne Michelle picketed along next to her with her toddler daughter in tow. The 35-year-old said she’s been acting since she was 19 years old and she’s seenin a way that makes her fear for her future. How can she afford to pay for rent and daycare, Michelle wonders, if the current streaming model stays the same?
“There’s a juxtaposition from when I joined the union in 2011, when I did a guest star role in my early 20s, to what I get paid now,” Michelle said. “Back then, I was so excited to have $1,000 residual checks. It was how I could sustain a multi-year career. Now, the ones that people get from Netflix and other streamers are for ten cents, five cents.”she hasn’t even bothered cashing some of the residual checks she’s received because they were for “three cents, ten cents, or a mix of pennies.
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