SAG Strike: "Oppenheimer's" actors leave the London premiere
It's a historic walkout. The Hollywood actors join writers in the strike among the worries related to AI. The last time something like this happened was sixty years ago.
Yesterday, during the London premiere of the highly anticipated Oppenheimer (directed by one and only Christopher Nolan), Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt left the premiere, as they officially joined the actors' strike. Although the unexpected move from the film's main actors,
As the BBC writes, "some 160 000 performers stopped work at midnight in Los Angeles, bringing to a halt most US film and TV productions." It means that the production of any kind of film or TV show might soon become more than unfeasible.
Fran Drescher, SAG's president, said the strike came at a "very seminal moment" for actors in the industry.
"What's happening to us is happening across all fields of labour," she said, "when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority, and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run," Drescher continues.
The last strike like that took place in the 1960s and, during this time, SAG's president was Ronald Reagan. After sixty-three years, history repeats itself, as AI becomes an even more and more major threat to the entire industry.
Contrarily, Disney chief executive Bob Iger, who currently makes 27 million dollars monthly, stated that the demands of both actors and writers were impractical. In the talk with Variety, Iger said: "There's a level of expectation that they have, that is just not realistic. And they are adding to the set of the challenges that this business is already facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive."
Main source: BBC
