Jessica Chastain is being honored!
16.09.2023 - 02:21 / deadline.com
It took Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain less than 30 seconds to deliver a simple explanation of how – and why – SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements work in the context of the ongoing strike.
Chastain, who’s also a producer, took on the challenge of boiling down the nuanced virtues of the agreements while on the red carpet at Toronto. The actress later posted the clip to her own social media.
“I’m going to explain it to you in baseball terms,” she says to a reporter from Canadian outlet eTalk. “You got the major leagues,” Chastain begins. “And they’re not happy with their contracts. We’re gonna strike. The minor leagues show up and say, ‘Hey, guess what? We’re going to give you the contract you want.’ So the players go, ‘You know what? We’re not going to work for the major leagues. We’re gonna go work for the minor leagues.’ Who do you think the audience goes to see? And now, all of a sudden, the major leagues don’t have any power.”
Watch below.
Giving you a @sagaftra Interim Agreement play by play. Journeymen actors, crew members etc, are urged to work in and support SAGAFTRA’s approved projects. As the AMPTP refuses to negotiate, they should be the only ones in our industry out of work. The sucess of Interim Agreements… pic.twitter.com/i8mpUkGsPN
Chastain was in Toronto — and Venice — promoting her latest film Memory only because it had secured an interim agreement, as Deadline first reported. The program allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming.
Under the terms, members “may work on these productions without being in violation of the strike order,” per the guild. The agreements also bind producers to whatever terms
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