With WGA Strike Looming, A Makeup Artist Asks Writers To Remember Below-The-Line Workers – Guest Column
deadline.comEditors note: Farah Bunch has worked as a makeup artist in film and television for more than 25 years. Her credits include Will & Grace, Man with a Plan and the Oscars.
She is currently working on the reboot of Frasier for Paramount+. Let’s start by saying that I, like the huge majority of my fellow crew members, support the WGA if they strike to get fair compensation.
We below-the-line members would just like to be considered in the conversation. I believe what the writers are asking for is more than fair, but I know we will be the ones left in crippling debt after the smoke clears, with no celebration dance at the end for us.
There will be winners, but we are guaranteed to be losers. WGA supported the IATSE strike that almost happened last year. However, in that strike, we weren’t fighting just for money.
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