In “Hacks,” Hannah Einbinder plays a disgruntled Hollywood writer struggling to chart her career path in the soul-crushing studio system.
Now, reality is catching up with fiction, and Einbinder is one of many SAG-AFTRA members striking alongside the WGA.“We’re living in a time where the average actor has to make $26,000 to qualify for health insurance and upwards of 80% of Guild members cannot qualify for health insurance.
There are a list of very reasonable, very, basic human right demands that a lot of the people on the negotiating committee have been advocating for that the studios refused to be reasonable,” Einbinder told IndieWire on Friday, while on the picket line outside the Burbank studio of “Hacks” production company Warner Bros.SAG-AFTRA went on strike Thursday, after the guild rejected the terms the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) provided during negotiations for a new contract.
Issues that…
Read full article