More than 160,000 actors form the union SAG-Aftra. None of them will be able to return to filming movies or television series, appearing on red carpets or promoting their work until the strike they’ve been on since last Thursday, July 13, which doesn’t look like it’s ending any time soon, ends.

The union made the decision to go on strike a day after the contract with Hollywood expired and without negotiating a new agreement with the industry.. What they explain is that in recent years with the rise of online stream and artificial intelligence systems, the business model has changed and benefits the heads of the big studios, rather than the actors, who are paid less and less.

“We fight for fair wages, minimum wages,” he assured Duncan Crab Treethe CEO and chief negotiator of SAG-Aftra in an interview with the program so it broke, by Radio City (89.3 FM in Guayaquil). “We are also fighting the issue of artificial intelligence and its use in the entertainment industry,” he added.

According to Crabtree, there are several positions on the part of major Hollywood studios and media platforms. streamif Netflix, disney And Warner Bros, which prompted the need to strike. For example, the studios suggested recreating an actor’s image with artificial intelligence for use in various projects, but they would only pay the actor once, while the studios would benefit from the resulting image for years to come.

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The success of the studios is “directly the result of our members’ work, their voices, their faces, their performances. And it’s fair that they share some of the platforms’ revenue, butor the studies and garlands They say no, that they don’t want to share any of the revenue from these platforms.”, indicated the director of the union.

Of the guild’s more than 160,000 members, not all are the celebrities we know, but most have low-paid supporting roles, “extras,” or starring roles. That is, not everyone has the economic income to survive without fair wages. Crabtree described them as “working people in our industry struggling to pay for food, a place to live, to take care of their children.”

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Also the screenwriters whose union has been on strike since May for reasons very similar to those of the actors. According to the SAG-Aftra negotiator, both unions work together along the strike lines, although each has specific proposals for the work of its members.

It is the first time since 1960 that Hollywood actors and screenwriters have gone on strike simultaneously. That year they were out of work for three months until they managed to reach an agreement.

But it is not yet known when the current strike would end. According to Crabtree, it could take weeks, months or years before the expected agreement is reached: “We are ready every day to talk to the studios, to negotiate with them, but they told us that they do not want to sit at the table for a long time.“, he pointed.

Until the negotiations, which have not yet started, are concluded, the production of television series and films will remain on hold indefinitely.

“We will continue to strike until an agreement is reached with respect and justice for our members.”, said the director of SAG-Aftra. I can safely say that 98% of our members are willing to stay in the strike line until a fair deal is reached,” he concluded.