Jessica Chastain wears a SAG-AFTRA shirt to Venice photocall

[afeelingunacted]

Jessica Chastain arriving at the press conference for her #Venezia80 title 'Memory' wearing a #SAGAFTRA strike t-shirt. pic.twitter.com/zFTHLbWbOO
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 8, 2023

• Chastain answered questions about the strike during the press conference
• She pointed out that the producers of the film she's promoting at Venice signed

Comments

[scriptedending]

Really appreciate that both she and Adam Driver used their platforms at this festival to talk about their unions.

Also love that WB suspended overall deals with a bunch of creators yesterday, including Greg Berlanti, and he responded by donating a bunch of money to several strike funds.

Prolific showrunner Greg Berlanti is donating nearly $1 million to current and former employees affected by Hollywood’s ongoing labor strikes. https://t.co/ffAxnz4Eae
- Variety (@Variety) September 8, 2023

Fuck the AMPTP, indeed.

[dull_and_wicked]

variety is still splitting hairs on this one. the money isn't just for his employees, 500k is earmarked for them and the other 300k is going to split evenly between the Entertainment Community Fund and the Motion Picture & Television Fund

[afeelingunacted]

Even if he's not donating to everyone, setting up $500k for staff and crew is still an amazing move.

He wouldn't have to do this if the AMPTP would actually do their work and offer fair compensation.

[dull_and_wicked]

that's not what i meant. the tweet said the money was only for ppl who worked for him, which makes it sound like those are the only ppl he's concerned about taking care of lol

[bluestoplights]

these industry outlets have been so transparent lmao, all of the misquoting they do...

[la_loony]

The thing for me is, the outlets who think that makes him look bad don't realize imo if he'd only take care of people who work for him and are effected by the strike that still means those people are taken care of and don't need to dip into the communal funds which means people who have to dip into those might get a bit more out of them. That's still good cause it helps people being able to continue to strike.