Posted on 07/25/2023 11:03:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bryan Cranston delivered a fiery speech at a SAG-AFTRA strike rally in Times Square on Tuesday, which included a message directed at Disney head Bob Iger.
“We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger,” Cranston said from the stage of the “Rock the City for a Fair Contract” rally. “I know, sir, that you look [at] things through a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are. But we ask you to hear us, and beyond that to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots. We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living. And lastly, and most importantly, we will not allow you to take away our dignity! We are union through and through, all the way to the end!”
Cranston began his remarks by saying that there is one thing that all the guilds and the AMPTP fundamentally agree on: “Our industry has changed exponentially.”
“We are not in the same business model we were even 10 years ago,” he said. “And yet, even though they admit that is the truth in today’s economy, they are fighting us tooth and nail to stick to the same economic system that is outmoded, outdated! They want us to step back in time. We cannot and we will not do that.”
Cranston was one of a number of stars who took the stage to address a crowd of hundreds of SAG-AFTRA members and union supporters at the rally, with others including Steve Buscemi, Wendell Pierce, Christian Slater, Christine Baranski, Stephen Lang, and Titus Burgess. They were joined onstage by fellow actors Michael Shannon, BD Wong, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Matt Bomer, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Corey Stoll, and more.
Burgess decided to forego a speech, instead singing a section of the song “Take Me to the World” from “Sondheim On Sondheim.”
Baranski told the crowd “We will not live under corporate feudalism” while also praising the background actors on shows like “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight,” saying that she attended the rally to speak for them and demand they get fair treatment under any new contract. Slater then spoke about how his father, a fellow SAG member, received support from the union after mental illness and later cancer left him unable to work.
Later on in the rally, “The Bear” star Liza Colón-Zayas told the audience that she has been a union member since 1994 and “struggled for 30 years to finally get here, only to find that my residuals have dwindled exponentially.” She then paraphrased Snoop Dogg by saying “We the artists, our gripe is that we deliver in high numbers, in major numbers. And yet, where the f— is my money?”
Says the guy famous for playing a drug dealer and a hen pecked, weirdo husband. Real dignified roles there Bryan
Celebridiots take away their dignity all on their own.
I got news for all you actors. We don’t miss you.
Can they train the AI’s to regurgitate the stupidest proggie talking points as well as the actors do? They can? Hmm...OK, can the AI’s indulge in every sort of sexual perversion and then preach to us with insufferable moral righteousness? No? Well, looks like the actors still have a role, I guess...
I’ve heard some of your opinions, Bryan. You have no dignity to lose.
Did Pfizer check your booster status and approve of you going maskless before your comments?
He played the communist Dalton Trumbo in a hagiographic biopic.
Trumbo sounded like out Putin propagandists here.
“ He argued that Russians were likely fearful of the mass of U.S. military power that surrounded them, at a time when any sympathetic view toward Communist countries was viewed with suspicion.[26] He ended the article by stating, “If I were a Russian ... I would be alarmed, and I would petition my government to take measures at once against what would seem an almost certain blow aimed at my existence. This is how it must appear in Russia today”.[26] He argued that the U.S. was a “menace” to Russia, rather than the more popular American view of Russia as the “red menace”.”
I agree with him. Artists always get screwed by these corporations and they probably always will. A little push back is a drop in the ocean. Certain people have always controlled the business. All they care about is money they’re heartless. But they’re always there to creep everyone out at the parties.
But they would end the careers in industries such as oil production farming and coal mining to save the planet and tell those workers to learn to code.
These ppl memorize lines and then act out their parts, although many of them can’t act their way out of a paper bag. Their jobs can disappear overnight just like many of us peons jobs. They’re not special.
I miss the dead ones.
If or when it’s possible for AI to make good movies, it’s going to happen. Even if the big studios ban it, the millions of indie creators online will use it. It’s like silent movie stars trying to stop “talkies”.
Hollyweird types are globalist leftists, and they 100% support the corrupt pervert state of The Ukraine under the puppet Zelensky. They hate Christian Russia today since it abandoned Communism.
Ukraine has a higher percentage of Christians than Russia. Russia is heavily atheist .
But yet The Ukraine has a globalist degenerate anti-Christian puppet leader who is applauded by Hollyweirdland and the Derp State (and a few warmongering globalist trolls on FR). Russia, conversely, has been recovering from 75 years of a Communist regime that was all about stamping out Christianity, just like the globalists today. Especially here in America. They’re very fortunate to have a strong Christian leader, unlike The Ukraine.
Voice over work will soon be dead. There are AI programs that can closely mimic the voices of famous stars so if you want your nature documentary to have some flair just have a bot sound like David Attenborough without having to pay his fee.
You’ve got psychological problems.
You’re obsessed with Zelensky.
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