EXCLUSIVE: Some of Hollywood’s biggest names met with the leadership of SAG-AFTRA today to get the lowdown on the breakdown of talks with the studios and streamers last week.
George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson were among a group of top talent guild members that spoke Tuesday with guild president Fran Drescher and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland for a detailed debrief, we hear.
Meeting with the guild brass via Zoom this afternoon, the Oscar winners and other A-listers were particularly interested in the revenue sharing proposals that SAG-AFTRA put before the AMPTP and the CEO Gang of Four.
That effort to gain further compensation traction for guild members has been a bitter pill for the studios and streamers since they began initial talks with SAG-AFTRA in June and right up until the union went out to join the WGA on the picket lines in mid-July.
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