State of the SAG-AFTRA Union with L.A. Local President, Jodi Long

We are back and still holding strong with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, so no new actress interview, but we are joined by Emmy-winning actor and President of the Los Angeles Local branch of SAG-AFTRA, Jodi Long. You Might Know Her From Shang-Chi, Dash & Lily, All-American Girl, and season 4 of this podcast! Jodi breaks down the SAG strike and spells out what the union is fighting for, the threat to the working class, and what she'll treat herself to when this is all over. Fear not, we’re still going deep on Kim Cattrall’s :47 cameo on And Just Like That and the menace that is Michael Patrick King. Plus Barbie, Oppenheimer, and just in time for fall, sweet potato pie, sweet pies!

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Discussed this week:

Jodi Long’s full interview: S4 ep116

NYT on why we should keep killing lantern flies

We saw Barbie Anne saw Oppenheimer on Labor Day

Cillian Murphy and his translucent skin was in Breakfast on Pluto

Kim Cattrall’s (71 second) cameo in And Just Like That in S2

And Just Like That, The Writer’s Room Podcast

Kim Cattrall engraved her own name with “Liverpool’s Cleopatra” next to it on her gravestone

Michael Patrick King is a menace, let’s bring back Darren Star

Michael Patrick King also helped create one of our favorite shows of all time, The Comeback. But Lisa Kudrow doesn’t want to be a mogul like SJP

Why are screen actors (SAG-AFTRA) and screen writers (WGA) striking?  

AMPTP is the negotiating organization for the Hollywood studios

Jodi Long was full-body scanned on Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. They own that image in perpetuity. 

Reality shows are a different contract and not part of the current SAG-AFTRA 

CEO salaries in 2022 for huge networks averaged $32M for 13 CEOas across 12 companies

Actors have to make $26k+ in order to qualify for health insurance (only 12% of SAG-AFTRA actors make that every year)

Hollywood studio CEOS are tonedeaf: Disney CEO Bob Iger / Warner Brothers CEO, David Zaslav

AMPTP hired a new PR person to change the public narrative

Movie studio A24 has agreed to all of SAG-AFTRA’s terms, so they are currently in production while other studios are not

Anne Hathaway,  Matthew McConaughey and others are working on waivers because their production companies have met SAG-AFTRA’s demands

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s call to arms

We love pie: ALR-key lime, cherry, blueberry / DB-Banana cream, strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin

Domino’s song “Sweet Potato Pie” 

Watch Norma Rae with us!