Will Hollywood experience another actors strike in the coming months?
Many of the issues between the two contracts are similar, including wages and AI.
DEADLINE: You mentioned that some basic AI issues were the current sticking points in the video game negotiations.
Duncan Crabtree-IrelandGetty
Can you expand upon what those issues are?
They dont speak but are creating a performance and really central to the action of the game.
I think that is an area where we havent been able to achieve the results we need just yet.
Weve been in this bargaining for over a year.
The results of the strike last year did move things a little bit in the right direction.
DEADLINE: I know you had hoped the Replica Studios agreement might move things along.
Did that yield any progress in these negotiations?
So I think that creates pressure.
So they arent necessarily always as nimble as you might like.
DEADLINE: As you said, these negotiations have been ongoing for more than a year.
Youve had a strike authorization since September.
What is indicating to you now that there could or should be a strike?
CRABTREE-IRELAND:I mean, a strike is always the last resort for us.
It just feels like were getting to the end of the road.
Movement is sort of stopped.
DEADLINE: So what indications would you better know the companies are serious about moving forward?
So we also arent going to just let it drag on indefinitely.
DEADLINE: About how many SAG-AFTRA members would be affected by this strike?
CRABTREE-IRELAND:It would affect thousands in total.
So I expect it would affect quite a significant number of people fairly quickly.
Theres too much of that already in the tech world and too much of it in our world.
So I think what we need is the balance in that conversation.
And whenever I get the chance to help balance that conversation out, Ill take it.
I know my colleagues from other unions are doing the same as well.
DEADLINE: Anything else you wanted to add?
