Sarah Silverman Now Less Pissed Off About SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreements After Leadership Meeting, Kinda; AMPTP Can Still “F*cking Kick Rocks”
deadline.comSarah Silverman isn’t so pissed off any more about the interim agreements that SAG-AFTRA has been handing out, but the comedian is still pretty “cynical” about the whole thing.
Less than 48 hours after talking to social media to rail against about the dozens of deals the striking 160,000-member strong guild is making which allow film and TV production supposedly not affiliated with AMPTP companies to move forward, Silberman has had a come to Fran moment, kinda. “Okay, I met with SAG leadership last night in the form of fearless Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree -Ireland, Silverman revealed online Saturday of her conversation with the guild present and National Executive Director, as SAG-AFTRA themselves noted yesterday.
Laying out the argument she and other critics heard from Drescher and Crabtree-Ireland, the past frequent participant on the picket lines explained on her Instagram feed what had been explained to her: The interim agreements means that these indie productions are agreeing and adhering to all the terms that SAG wants, the ideal version of what of what we’re fighting for.
And then anyone who wants to buy those productions, streaming or cable or whatever AMPTP owned movie theater, etc, they have to adhere to those SAG terms, or, or whatever has finally been agreed upon at the end of all of this, which will likely be something a little less than everything SAG.
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