Wim Wenders, Thierry Frémaux Signal Support For Actors Strike As It Hits 100 Days Mark: “The Universal Dimension Of This Strike Is Underestimated” – Lumière Film Festival
deadline.comWim Wenders and Thierry Frémaux signalled their support on Saturday for the Hollywood actors strike as the industrial action hits its 100th day. “I understand the actors who all want to profit a little more… rather than there being just a dozen big names who have high salaries… while all the others earn nothing or very little,” Wenders told a press conference at the Lumière Film Festival.
The German director is guest of honor at the 15th edition of the festival, spearheaded by double-hatted Cannes Delegate General Frémaux in his role of director of the Institut Lumière in Lyon, preserving the legacy of cinema pioneers Auguste Louis Lumière.
Frémaux seconded Wenders’s words. “The dimension universal of this strike is perhaps underestimated… France, which has a reputation of struggle and putting up a fight, can also look with admiration at what is happening in Hollywood for something that touches us all.” Wenders lived in the U.S.
for just over a decade from the mid-1970s onwards, making films such as Hammett, part of The State Of Things and his 1984 Cannes Palme d’Or breakthrough picture Paris, Texas.
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