WGA Negotiating Committee Member Danielle Sanchez-Witzel: “We Are Ready Today” To Resume Talks With Studios
deadline.comVeteran TV comedy showrunner and member of the WGA Negotiating Committee Danielle Sanchez-Witzel (My Name Is Earl) worked the guild’s picket line at Netflix on Day 1 of the writers strike.
She spoke with Deadline about how the negotiations broke down, DEADLINE: Danielle, what was it like in the room in the final hours? SANCHEZ-WITZEL: I think that the main takeaway is what didn’t happen in the finals hours, which is we didn’t get a fair deal.
And I think that’s what we’re there to do. We’ve spent the last six weeks wanting it, trying to get it, and I think what we found was that we were being devalued by the studios, and we’re not going to be okay with that.
We’re not going to roll over and say, it is what it is. We fought in 2007-08, I was part of that fight. And we’re here now. It’s not something that we want to bring to the town.
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