Mark Ruffalo has urged fellow actors and writers to work collectively to make impartial initiatives to chop out Hollywood’s “fats cats”.
The actor posted a thread on Twitter on Saturday (July 15) in response to the Display screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strike which started final week. The union, which represents 160,000 actors and performers, are in search of a rise in base pay and residuals within the age of streaming, together with safeguards towards the unregulated use of synthetic intelligence within the trade.
In a publish in help of the strike, Ruffalo wrote: “How about all of us bounce into indies now? Content material creators create a movie & TV-making system alongside the studio & streaming networks? So there may be precise competitors.
Then we simply do what we all the time do—create nice content material & they will purchase it, or we take it out ourselves & WE share in these gross sales. They’ve created an empire of billionaires & consider that we’re now not of worth. Whereas they hand around in the billionaire boy summer time camps laughing…
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 15, 2023
“Then we simply do what we all the time do – create nice content material & they will purchase it, or we take it out ourselves & WE share in these gross sales. They’ve created an empire of billionaires & consider that we’re now not of worth. Whereas they hand around in the billionaire boy summer time camps laughing like fats cats, we organise a brand new world for staff.”
He added: “One positive technique to strengthen our hand proper now could be to turn into very supportive & pleasant to all impartial initiatives instantly.”
The actors’ strike coincides with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which started on Might 2 and halted manufacturing on numerous initiatives. It marks the primary time that actors and writers in Hollywood have gone on strike concurrently in over 60 years.
Final week (July 13), Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. left the London premiere of Oppenheimer because the actors’ strike started. The occasion was introduced ahead by an hour so the forged might stroll the purple carpet.
In response to the strike, the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP), who symbolize main Hollywood studios like Netflix and Disney, mentioned {that a} “strike is definitely not the result we hoped for as studios can’t function with out the performers that carry our TV exhibits and movies to life”.
“The Union has regrettably chosen a path that may result in monetary hardship for numerous hundreds of people that depend upon the trade,” it added.