Zachary Quinto Responds To Below-The-Line “Outrage” As Actors Remain On Strike
https://deadline.com/2023/11/zachary-quinto-response-actors-strike-1235594800/
Zachary Quinto spoke about the individual consequences of the labor action.
Star Trek star responded to the feedback he received from “below-the-line colleagues” since his Instagram video the day before in which he expressed his doubts about the “last, best, and final offer” put forth by the AMPTP to actors, and insisted his fellow actors “hold strong” for a better deal and not cave.
Quinto acknowledged that the below-the-line folks who’ve been out of work for several months “are tired” and “really struggling.”
Quinto is an employed actor and the star of a new NBC medical drama series, Dr. Wolf, which was picked up a few weeks ago.
“I hear you, I empathize with you and I recognize as a person in the public eye, who is beating a drum for ‘Hold the line,’ I can be a lightning rod for the argument, ‘That’s easy for you to say. You’re not being asked to sacrifice nearly as much as we are.’ And there is a validity to that argument, I understand that,” said Quinto in response to below-the-line workers.
Quinto defended that he “made significant contributions to the Motion Picture Television Fund” and encouraged his followers to do the same.
“This is not about me. This is not about getting richer. This is about protection for all us” .
“Because where this is not about money, this is about the implementation of technology that could in due course render all our contributions to this industry obsolete if we let it. If we give ground now, we will lose ground forever.”
“While your outrage is justified,” Quinto told those below-the-line workers listening, “I encourage you to channel it in the right direction.”
There is more at the source. And that preaching video from him.
You gotta love how those rich millionaires just refuse to understand struggling of low payed people in profession and want to strike to eternity. Because they can afford themselves that. There are so many people like make up artists, sound, wardrobe, assistans etc who will not receive a penny in rise of salary and just all have to sit and not work for 6 month because rich privileged actors want more money.
Don't be fooled by any AI stuff, studios would cave long time ago. No one cares about AI. And it's not about rights of below-the-lien actors. Those didn't start this strike. It's about rich actors wanting more money from streamings. They saw their golden chicken sleeping away and understood that they have to live up now by just reeving what they were payed for their work like 500k or 10 mln a year if they got in good project. But no additional free millions like they used to have. And that they now have to save their money and not spend all of it on parties, rich houses, private planes because when your popular show will end - you will stop getting big money and would have to settle for less. Or when you are not popular anymore like you used to.
So they started strike, trying to force studios to pay them millions until the day they die for past work they were already payed for. And they dont care how much it takes and who will suffer. They want their free money.
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