A lot of Netflix artists, like Kimiko Glenn from “Orange Is the New Black” and Sean Gunn from “Gilmore Girls,” are coming out against the service.
This comes after the US union Sag-Aftra decided unanimously to quit after weeks of failed talks.
Writers in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike months ago, and now Sag members have done the same.
Yesterday, the cast of Oppenheimer left the UK opening early out of unity. Christopher Nolan said that they were “off to write their picket signs.”
Sean, who played Kirk Gleason on the show, has also spoken out against Netflix.
While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on the picket lines for the Sag-Aftra strike, he said: ‘I also particularly wanted to come out and protest Netflix.
‘I was on a television show called Gilmore Girls for a long time that has brought in massive profits for Netflix.
‘It has been one of their most popular shows for a very long time, over a decade. It gets streamed over and over and over again, and I see almost none of the revenue that comes into that.’
The 49-year-old added, “Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, the CEOs of Netflix, give each other bonuses worth tens of millions of dollars.”
‘I don’t understand why they can’t lessen those bonuses to share the wealth more with the people who have created the content that has gotten them rich.’
In a film that has gone viral, Kimiko, who is 34, shows a letter from the streaming service that shows how much she gets in royalties.
Upon opening the file she joked: ‘Oh god I’m about to be so rich.’
Kimiko, who played Brook Soso, then started singing the music and talked about how much money she had made, which was $27.30, which is about £20.
She then shouted ‘WHAT.’ The caption read: ‘Why #sagaftra is striking.’
The movie was shared on social media for the first time in 2020, but it has been shared again now because of the new stress in the industry.
When it first came out in 2013, Orange is the New Black was one of only two Netflix originals. Since then, it has become one of the most popular shows on Netflix.
It ran for a total of seven seasons and ended in 2019. During that time, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, and Danielle Brooks all became big stars.
But many of the show’s minor actors and actresses have said that they weren’t paid fairly for their time.
Kimiko, Matt McGorry, and Beth Dover are among the people who say they weren’t paid enough for all the work they did.
Source My Celebrity Life.
