Adam Driver Criticizes Netflix and Amazon for Role in SAG-AFTRA Strike

Adam Driver shared his frustration with the massive streaming companies that aren’t cooperating with the continued WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

“Why is it that a smaller distribution company like Neon and STX International can meet the dream demands of what SAG is asking for — this is pre-negotiations — the dream version of SAG’s wishlist, but a big company like Netflix and Amazon can’t,” Driver, 39, stated throughout a Thursday, August 31, press convention on the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

He continued: “Every time people from SAG go and support a movie that has agreed to these terms – the interim agreement – it just makes it more obvious that these people are willing to support the people that they collaborate with, and the others are not.”

Driver is likely one of the few A-list stars attending the movie competition this 12 months, which started on Wednesday, August 30, and will run up till Saturday, September 9. The attendees have been granted an interim waiver by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) for their impartial film tasks amid the continued strike.

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The greatest names in Hollywood are displaying their help for the continued SAG-AFTRA strike by becoming a member of their fellow union members on the picket traces. In July, the labor union — which represents greater than 160,000 TV and movie actors — voted to go on strike after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) […]

Driver’s is attending the competition to advertise his latest movie Ferrari. The drama follows the lifetime of Italian sports activities automotive entrepreneur, Enzo Ferrari and is an impartial movie placed on by Neon and helmed by Micheal Mann.

“When this chance got here up, it appeared like [an] understanding [to[ the interim agreement,” he explained at the press conference about his desire to sign on for the project. “It’s a no-brainer for all these reasons why you want to support your union and I’m here because of that, to support and stand in solidarity with them by showing and just further proving the point that [it] is de facto is concerning the individuals you make [the film] with and that’s very resonant with our film.”

Driver additionally famous that whereas filming the impartial challenge, members of their crew — together with a few of the catering workers — would step in to do some background work. He expressed how “important” it was for him “to show up for” these unsung heroes.

Ahead of Ferrari’s launch, Mann, 80, spoke to Variety about why he selected to associate with an impartial distributor for the film.

“The origins of the movie and the content of the screenplay and the movie that you saw do not fit into the kind of film that would be embraced by the conventional studio system,” Mann defined earlier this month. “It’s truly appropriate that it is an independent film being distributed by Neon, a very independent distributor.”

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Actors and writers of Us Weekly‘s favourite exhibits and films have been reuniting on the picket traces amid the historic WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. The labor dispute initially made headlines in May 2023 when the Writers Guild of America introduced that their contract negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had stalled. […]

SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July, whereas the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) has been marching the picket traces since May. Both labor unions licensed their respective strikes as a consequence of related points with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — which represents the massive Hollywood studios together with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Universal and extra.

Neither group might get the AMPTP to succeed in an settlement on truthful wages, residuals and the usage of synthetic intelligence in the business. Many stars have taken to the picket traces to precise their help for their respective unions and struggle for what they deserve.