Sean Gunn Takes to Twitter to Clarify Deleted THR Interview on ‘Gilmore Girls,’ Netflix Residuals: ‘This Is About Fairness’ (Video)
thewrap.comremoved his interview from the social network on Friday “because it did not note that the residuals Gunn was referencing are paid by the studio [Warner Bros.
Discovery] and not the streamer, Netflix” — a move Gunn said was “absolutely absurd.”“I never even used the word ‘residuals’ in my interview.
The point I was making is that we don’t see any residuals for number of views on Netflix. Instead, we see a very meager amount from WB based on the licensing.
Do better @THR,” Gunn wrote before posting a more expansive video response. “The important thing is that the whole point of my interview is that Netflix doesn’t pay residuals to the actors, so there’s no sharing in the success of a show with Netlfix,” he said in the video, which you can watch below. “It’s true that they pay a licensing fee to Warner Bros.
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