Melissa's Take on SAG-AFTRA Strike: Corporate vs. Creative + SECRETS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ค. 2023
- On What Women Binge this week, Melissa and Amanda dive into the ongoing SAG - AFTRA strike and unveil some behind-the-scenes secrets of the entertainment industry. Did you know Melissa sees no residuals from Clarissa Explains It All though it continues to be streamed today? Negotiations have reached a stalemate, and corporations are allegedly waiting for workers to face financial difficulties before returning to the table. We also discuss what Melissa and Amanda have been watching including Sound of Freedom and The Greatest Beer Run Ever. THEN IT'S TIME TO OPEN UP THE SECRETS JAR! We reveal our guests deepest (or most ridiculous) secrets... with a new twist this time.
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It’s wild child actors don’t get residuals. Like I know Josh peck spoke on that too how he doesn’t get a dime from Drake and Josh. It’s bonkers!
Regardless of age, residuals don't last forever.
@@DavidKen878 sure, I mean there’s many including even Melissa that probably got such a small amount for some projects still to this day, that it costs more to print/mail the cheque than is on it for her. However, excluding children from massive residuals when shows go into syndication despite being the stars is bonkers! They should get paid just as the adults and not excluded due to age. It’s like saying oh your 90, you won’t live much longer , you don’t get residuals, but your costars do!
Excluding all those who worked on the project when they sell the show to some streamer or platform because it may have not existed at the time is not cool either.
@@DavidKen878you’re missing the point entirely. These greedy corporations are taking advantage of their talent.
@@Runnerdude360 I didn't miss anything. I was just stating a fact. 🤦🏼♂️
I think that's a Disney thing.
22:00 SAG-AFTRA member here. We are being asked NOT to cancel streamers unless directed but SAG-AFTRA. From what I understand, if their numbers go down, they will simply cite these new stats to substantiate their (false) claim that they don't have the money or the viewership we think they do.
This is why Melissa Joan Hart ROCKS! You hear things on the news and all...but you get such a good focus and more inside understanding from her. She stops to explain things....
Melissa Explains It All😊
She certainly has my support!
As a longtime Sabrinite (is that what you call fans of the character?), I thank Melissa for "explaining it all" regarding Hollywood labor. I'm a journalist turned screenwriter - I specialize in rom-com features (MJH, you're always welcome to direct one... once I sell one!). One of the people I interviewed back in the day was the great William Schallert (former SAG president), when he was in a play in New Jersey in 2002. I've been in LA since 2014, where I've made a lot of friends in the industry and fully support both writers and actors. As far as future guests, I don't know if you've ever had Nick Bakay on (you probably have), but in addition to the obvious Salem tie-in, he played a major role writing and producing "Mom," one of my favorite recent sitcoms. (Glad to hear Beth Broderick is doing well; I admit to having a crush on the brainy, beautiful and magical Aunt Zelda!)
Thank you for this incredibly informative and insightful episode! You expounded on the strike in a way that is so digestible and easy to understand for a viewer and listener like myself who doesn't work in the industry.
Great podcast…been a fan since Clarissa. We’ve been fighting for a living wage and still no progress. While everything goes up as well as our healthcare premium which comes out of our paychecks.
a living wage? lol set your sights higher. Try for a thriving wage.
The premiums have to be paid separately. It’s the Producers who fill the coffers in terms of contributions and pay into funding the plan via paycheck deductions. The SAG health plan is called the Producers Pension and Health Plan since it’s the Producers who fund it.
I was hoping for you to explain the situation with the strike. And now it makes even more sense. More than what I’ve heard over the past few days.
John Astin played Gomez Addams in the 60s tv show The Addams Family. Also, Jackie Coogan was on that show (Uncle Fester). Coogan's Law is named after him. It protects child actors from their parents that appropriate their money for their own use.
YESS!
Isn’t that just in California-a state law though? Also it’s such a pittance, it really needs to be updated and increased imo.
Also, none of the kids that are forced into performance on those TH-cam or Tik ton channels should be regulated just as child performers. There’s nothing protecting them with restrictions on hours worked, educational requirements, mandatory breaks, and financial protections. It makes me so sad for those kids.
@@dash-x Agreed! I attended two episodes of "Mom" in 2014 and 2015, and the boy who played the son of the Anna Faris did not perform at those evening filmings for that very reason. Instead, his scenes were shot beforehand, as were exterior scenes and those involving special effects, then played back to the studio audience in the order of the script. (It's probably why "Young Sheldon," another Chuck Lorre production, is a single-camera series, not a multi-cam.)
The last "A" in "AFTRA" stands for (American Federation of Television & Radio) Artists. :)
And what happened with the insurance is, that the Board of Trustees (different entity than "the Union") didn't properly inform the membership that certain financial allocations in the contract that was put forth for ratification in 2020 (and passed, by members who could have benefited from that info), were going to have to go toward raising the health insurance earnings minimums. The Board of Trustees are 20 people--10 people appointed by the AMPTP and 10 people appointed by the SAG-AFTRA president--then, Gabrielle Carteris. Those appointees at the time are the ones whose actions damaged the Health Plan and caused tons of people, including seniors, to be kicked off their SAG-AFTRA health care. To date, new president Fran Drescher has replaced three of the 10.
Is the healthcare paid for from the members contributions? Charity? Free?
@@danielwebb8402 The Healthcare is not free. Earnings minimums to qualify are $26,470 a year per person. Premiums for single coverage are over $300/quarter, plus co-pays for doctor visits and medical services. Family coverage earnings minimums and premiums are higher and mostly prohibitive in accordance with health care costs in the U.S. (Twenty years ago, long before the SAG-AFTRA merger and health plan merger, at one point yearly AFTRA industry earnings to qualify for health coverage was $10k/year, and premiums at one point were free.)
I see Melissa on Clarissa Explains It and Sabrina The Teenage Witch on Nickelodeon! Sabrina The Teenage Witch is my favorite childhood show in the 90’s!
You’re such a huge part of my childhood and I’m proud of you for not promoting a damn thing for Nickelodeon unless they are going to open their VERY DEEP pockets. You deserve it for giving them your childhood. I’m 39 and I cannot name one woman my age I know that doesn’t LOVE you and we all wanted to be Clarissa and Sabrina! My daughter will be 13 and we started watching Sabrina together. It’s timeless. ❤
Very engaging and informative points made. And I just have to add, I love that Melissa quoted from 'Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful.' I sing the songs from that mockumentary to this day. No one does it like Julie Brown!
Thank you for still explaining it all to me at almost 40 after 30+ years later. It’s always refreshing to see you and hear what you have to say about what’s going on.
Thank you for your attempt to explain this extremely complicated topic.
Hollywood needs to remake itself, not the movies.
Hilary Swank won an Oscar and didn’t make the minimum for insurance one year- imagine that.
Punch Up, IATSE, above/below the line... AOL lol. I've learned so much from this episode.
Omg Melissa J is an absolute Joy. Gotta love her and she's still just as beautiful and light hearted as she was in Sabrina TTW
Best episode to date! I’m behind you 100%
Haha! Melissa, you have the same problem I do: you think 1998 was fifteen years ago!!! And you're YOUNGER than me!!! 😁 This was very informative and entertaining! I'll have to subscribe for more. Great job!
I often still feel like it's 2010.
If Mason is interested in doing growls and vocals, check out Will Ramos. He’s amazing and even went to a research clinic where they put a camera down his throat whilst he did some of his growls to further research what precisely is going on. It was part of the charismatic voice who’s used to do opera and is now a vocal coach, and she was fascinated to see what’s going on. It was really fun!
Also, Will Ramos is adorable like a golden retriever ❤️
It was patty duke then Melissa Gilbert then Justine and now Fran 🙌🏼 thank you for this engaging content
Gabrielle Carteris was president before Fran Drescher
The basic's of insurance whether that be Health, life, car or home is.. you pay them money and they cover you for an 'incident' then when you put in a claim' and they do all they can to NOT payout a penny. In their eyes the money you pay them is their money. It's corporate greed and it's horrid...
I love when Melissa says "I'd love to!" hahaha
I dug that a lot. Randomly stumbled onto it. Thanks for starting my morning off right. Have a great day!
Melissa, I have watched your career. As a child star I am so happy to see that you have srayed so grounded.
❤ I LOVE LOVE YOU Mel.✨☺️❤️
Hate to be blunt. But millions of Americans have been going through this for the past 20-30 years now. I think most common people look at this and think …”well corporations are doing it to Hollywood now”
Personally I think if you just assume that they are going to not come back to the negotiating table in October and find a work around proving that you all don’t need a corporation and will find a way to work around them. That would prove they need you more than you need them.
SAG's Basic Theatrical Agreement applies to films with budgets greater than $2,000,000. While premium talent is usually paid far above the SAG minimum, this is the rate actors can expect to make on a low budget studio project or a moderate indie film. The SAG day rate is $1,082, and $3,756 for the week
I was with you about health insurance. Health insurance is important. Then you talked about the longer hours. These are fun jobs with LOTS of breaks.
So you're saying its a long timing coming and it was just due for negotiations and things have changes so much in the last 15 year? Best of luck to my fellow creatives.
Melissa, The writers and actors do not need to suffer any more than they already have. The CEOs want to make the writers and actors homeless so they can get the contract they want. The wallets of the CEOs need to be hit hard before they are willing to make any concessions.
I think Rob Schneider's running for SAG president. He said somewhere he got about 25 cents off residuals from SNL. He said how about send me the stamp?! 😆
I thought it was to do with ai, writing scripts, voice recognition and visually copying the actors, which was more alarming and I'm no part of the industry. Clarified this matter, Thank you. 👵🇬🇧
Some does yes.
Q's S8 What do you want written on your headstone? If you were to write a song about yourself what would you call it? If you could turn back time where would you go? What is the change you want to see most in the world? Do you think Middle/high school should offer more "Real world" classes( or just make this a topic of convo) yes they should (managing money, how to this and that. You're someone that's up in front of Shark Tank, What would you invent and why!! Please use this if any of them!
Fran is the national president, i think. Fellow sag aftra member here !.
hi Mel I love watching your TH-cam channel. can u make more jokes about your guests on your TH-cam channel.
Good podcast or talkshow 😅 if Hollywood needs to resolve the strike soon find compromise and let's get some new shows!
Great podcast! I loved watching Sabrina The Teenage Witch when I was younger. I was wondering, do actors get residuals from the sales of dvds and blurays? Like, when people go out to a record store or any store that sells dvds and blurays and buy a season of a show, do the actors and crew of that show get residuals from that sale?
They get a percentage of the profits.
No the last sag strike was 2000 twelve years before sag/aftra merged.
the guy in the beer run movie had already done 2-4 years or so in the army before vietnam.
I'm ok w/whatever you want to call it, Melissa. I rather this visual "podcasts", than just listening to them. IDK, I guess I enjoy seeing the interaction among the parts involved -seems more close to the viewer, than just coldly listening🤷🏼
A fantastic question to ask anyone: What benefits did you receive because of the type of job your parent(s) had? I got to go to Disneyland for free and my husband got discounted Fender guitars.
You get to learn what the person might enjoy for free but not at a cost, and also a little bit of what their childhood might have been like.
Fran is the president. There is no East Coast president.
Hobbies scrapbooking. Proud moment getting on honor roll in high school.
There's a strikes in Ireland were I'm from mell. I'm a big fan of u I love watching your TH-cam channel
Is it a closed shop? Or can individuals negotiate their own contract / pay / t&cs?
Wait…. Fran Drescher is their president? Why does this make my heart sing? She is a dynamo!!
Thanks for explaining this to us. I have been hearing it in the background, but wasn’t informed. I watched some of her speech and am glad to know better what is going on. ❤️
*Question for Season 8* MJH is there any truth to you almost being cast in the movie “Dairy Queens” that later became “Drop Dead Gorgeous “ any other casting close calls or could’ve been?!? ❤ PS. I loved your book!
Love Nanny Fran❤
I remember we did a scene together back in 2016 called BROADCASTING CHRISTMAS on the Hallmark Channel
The last writers strike has caused lots of reality tv show sh so that might just be more of that
Yes, I'm for the WRITERS, but I'm also for the THEATER WORKERS!
Strikers, also mention that theater workers who sell the tickets, get the lowest wages and benefits allowed by law
Omg… Medusa Dare to Be Truthful…I forgot about that. Thank you Melissa, Julie Brown is hilarious. She was also the gym teacher in Clueless for any of y’all that want to put a face with a name.
How?
oh THAT julie brown. love her too even though she isnt downtown lol. very funny. didnt know she was a writer as well. i just know her as a comedic actress
Personally I think by releasing the info that they are going to wait until everyone starts losing their homes they overplayed their hand.
Questions to ask hmm.. What do you feel has been your worst role to date? and/or What is the craziest rumour you have heard about yourself?
Thats the Grimace from that Chime commercial. Yes, no?
I feel like it's a crime that I just discovered this channel now.
I hear even the mechanical puppet cat Salem was out there on the picket line.😅
😂😅🤣😂😆
What is the minimum salary for WGA?
The current guild minimum for a TV writer-producer is $7,412 per week. On a network show, the median writer-producer works between 35-40 weeks, for a total of $259,420 to $296,480, if that writer is paid minimum
Is $7,000 per week better than $0?
A lot of writers are staff writers and their salary range for staff writers is $ 29000-$68000. And with mini-rooms most them have salaries on lower end of the salary range because they're constantly having to move on and find other work and take entry-level positions rather than rising up the hierarchy
I’m sure they only have 3 or 4 writers and not 12. With that chat box AI bullshit I hear it will fill in a whole script for you, they’re probably using that shit now. Think how much more money they’re gonna save now. So sad. And those actors should get more of the profits than the studio. It’s their work
There are some reports that multiple theaters are having issues with The Sound of Freedom movie, leaving the lights on, odd smells, it downloaded improperly....etc, this makes me all the more determined to see it now.
I went on Monday to see it and the A/C was off 🤦🏽♀️
@@yayig80 I wish I could say that surprised me, but it doesn't. Im planning go see it in the next few days
@@Msubulldogs09 hopefully it wont happen to you
It’s Obamacare that made premium go up for health insurance. As someone who used to pay 100 a month for a policy I saw it triple after Obama made healthcare affordable. Now between my employer and my paycheck contributions I pay 1k a month for ok insurance.
Oh SHIT SABRINA IS BASED!!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
the thing they say jim caviezel was involved in didn't exist when it the movie was written or filmed. he didn't know what it was when it was mentioned. it was all a lie to discredit. tim ballard and others involved in the movie have explained in many interviews the bits that are different and why.
Can you talk about your views on sound of freedom. I hipe more pwole can talk about it
AFTRA. American Federation of Radio and Television Artists is the correct name.
There’s no east coast president for SAG-AFTRA (the legal name) there’s only one president and that is Fran Drescher (National President) there are SAG-AFTRA Local Presidents i.e. Atlanta Local, Miami Local etc
It's not like WGAw and WGAe (LA- and NYC-based guilds respectively).
I don't know how they are going to get residuals from a streaming platform business model. Unlike traditional broadcast shows which go into syndication and ad revenue generated. On streaming, production is left on that streaming platform from cradle to grave and there is no ad revenue created to pay for residuals. I don't see that getting resolved.
It wouldn't be hard to put in residuals. For starters some streaming services have ads or are considering adding a cheaper tier which will have ads. That aside residuals can either come from being apart of the inital payment services make to get rights to have shows in the first place or a portion of the membership fee could be set aside as residuals for the shows that account watches. And there are other ways to do it. Implementation is easy. Getting services that got use to the loop hole that allow them to not pay people to agree to pay people will be the hard part.
@@arthurmarshall6825 I think probably it could be on the level Spotify that when people click on a show the more popular the show the more residuals there will be. I will say though the old way of a rider getting 25,000 an episode and $2,000 residual checks are over with.. I think in the future writers will be lucky to make 80,000 to $100,000 a year and will be firmly in the middle class of what people make in this country.
This old contract was negotiated by your union so why did they settle all these years for those terms? Plus every writer and actor HAS TO BE IN THE GUILD to get any kind of work - most are not successful actors or writers because the niche of jobs are small and any newcomer cannot get in - so majority do not get paid work. So the residuals are for the very few that avtually get a job which is about 5%
Medusa!
No A.i. scary
As someone who worked for Anthem now may be know as Evlance health. All the guilds Director, Writing, Motion Picture Industry, Sag-Aftra are insured by Blue Cross & medical group Anthem now know as Evlance health. Their policies are 3 party system.There is the payor Sag-Aftra, the insurance co. Blue Cross and a thrid party that makes the negoiations for the payor.
Get AOC out of the Sag-Aftra strike. She has lost supporters for long time. She's using everyone.
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Not wasting money on a Kardashian owned business!
I hope everyone is doing well. I would like to share the good news with everyone here. There is only one God. “Within the one Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” God is the creator of everything and is Sovereign over everything. God has appointed his only Son to judge the living and the dead. We have all sinned and broken God’s law, such as lying, stealing, lusting, anger, and pride. God is Holy, Just, and Impartial. That is why when God judges he cannot let even one sin from anyone go unpunished and that punishment is eternal hell. We can’t work our way into heaven and our good deeds can’t save us from our sin. The bible says all our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We would perish if we died and faced God with our own righteousness.
The Good news is that God is also Love and Merciful and sent his only Son to save his people from their sin. Jesus who is fully God and fully human, lived a perfect life and never sinned. He willingly went to the cross where the Father took the wrath that his people deserved and put it on Jesus. Jesus paid the price for their sin and died on the cross. He was buried and on the third day God raised him from the dead. God commands all people everywhere to repent of their sins and to put their trust in Jesus. Biblical repentance is a change of mind about Sin. It’s an attitude of the heart, genuinely turning from sin to God. Everyone who repents and puts their trust in Jesus, will have their sins credited to Jesus, and Jesus’s righteousness will be credited to them. Their sins will be forgiven, and they will be given eternal life. When it’s time to face God, he will welcome them into heaven because of Jesus’s perfect righteousness.
The problem with Sound of Freedom is not that it plays into your politics. It is that it is funded by “obscure sources” which are all right wing. Caviezel called Trump the new “Moses” on FOX news and Trump came out to publicly support it. The same trump who incited an insurrection as well as has been found guilty of rape, etc etc. so paying money to that movie is automatically supporting that even if the movie is “good”.
None of that is true. Stop listening to the corporate press. I don't understand why a movie about child trafficking upset liberals so much.
25:00 comic cons are actually filled with comic book writers instead of actors and filmmakers which is a cool shift
I hope the strikes goes on for years.
why is melissa playing down her fame? yeah she is madonna but you are MELISSA JOAN HART! definitely bigger than a gaga who has only been around for five seconds. you are a VETERAN! OWN YOUR SHINE AND SPACE MOMMA!
Really they aren't hurting like they say are go back old Hollywood stories how got started
We the fans stand with the studios @ least on this issue. Everything else not so much. We want you gone as much as the studio do.
Sag never should have merged with Aftra. Also 80% of actors who don’t make the minimum should not be in the Union. I have been eligible to join SAG for 10 years and I never joined because I live in Cleveland and that would be stupid.
I have mixed feelings about the issue. Going into acting is a choice. Its not like a normal job with normal hours. Sometimes you are lucky and sometimes you are not. So when it appears that acting is not working out for you and you can't make a living of it, change jobs.... When I would be in a job which would not support me financially I would not start complaining about that but try to get another job which does. And in all jobs (either an acting job or a "normal" job there are people barely making it and people making tons of money. When this is such a big of an issue try to become the director or executive yourself.
So going on strike is real now … so your residuals stopping should be also now .. for real … as all the people under the budget have nothing right now !
Hollywood doesnt give two shits about regular ameticans and our struggles so again why should anyone outside hollywood care???
They should learn to code or get a jerb at Walmart
You dont care about them yet you do watch tv and/or films, right?
So you might not "care about it" but this has an huge impact in the entertainment world...
@@rocky1169ptexactly.
@@rocky1169pt There is so much stuff out there, if they didn't make anymore films people wouldn't still be able see all of it. Turn off the TV, go outside, read a book and talk with people.
This reminds me a lot of what gay people went through for equal rights. Such a interesting thing.
what people need to be aware of is that when this strike is settled it is we the consumer that will pay for it. All of our bills will go up
why do you keep saying y'all?
Perhaps because they reside in Tennessee and folks there have been saying y’all for a couple hundred years?
I was a fan until you brought up watching Q ANON crazy Sound Of Freedom where they are literally buying out EMPTY theaters.. tracks with ur comments about talking to Sean Aston about politics .. yikes .. Clarissa really did explain it all…
Mmkay. Butthurt much
Pedowood/Hollyweird is going to be gone. There will still be some actors making shows and movies but it's not going to be like it was before.
why doesnt she just cast a spell to get them what they want and think theyre entitled to? she IS a witch after all!!!!
I pored through the responses last night with the husband as we were watching an older episode of this pod. We were 😦…and many “WHHAAT?!”
It’s funny as Matt Damon has been ringing this bell for many years now actually. It’s bonkers. But it’s soo important many of you guys who are the 1% lending your voices and support to those who can’t survive as it stands. You don’t see that in many other guilds. 🪧✊🏻
I wanted to add: one of the proposals they REJECTED, was mandatory meals breaks and rest periods -increased penalties which haven’t been increased since *1961* !