Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Talks About End Of Strike As Star-Powered Hollywood Premieres Return With ‘The Crown’
deadline.comFour days after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Netflix rolled out the blue carpet for the first post-strike Hollywood premiere of a major studio production attended by talent, Season 6 of the streamer’s British royal drama The Crown.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, one of the four studio CEOs who helped broker the deals with both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA by getting personally involved in the final stretches of the guild negotiations, was soaking it all in. “It’s a thrill,” Sarandos told Deadline about attending the first major studio premiere with both actors and writers in more than six months. “I haven’t been out in months so this is my first night out too.
It’s great.” Sarandos also made his first public comments about how he feels about the SAG-AFTRA strike being finally over. “Just thrilled to be back and thrilled to have everybody back,” he said.
This was the first weekend off in a while for Sarandos who, alongside Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and NBCUniversal Studio Group Chairman Donna Langley were deep into the marathon negotiations that led to an agreement after weeks of back-and-forth.
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