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‘Mission Impossible' Star Hayley Atwell: Hollywood Isn't Thriving ‐ ‘Industry on its Knees'
2023-07-26
[Breitbart] Actress Haley Atwell, co-star of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, has said that Hollywood has become "an industry on its knees" as writers and actors strike for better pay and benefits.

Atwell gave her diagnosis on the film industry, which has been crippled by the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) strike and the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) strike, when speaking at the London Equity actor’s rally last Friday. She quoted research from Deadline when saying that "87% of SAG-AFTRA members don’t earn enough to qualify for health insurance."

"There is an illusion that if you are seen on telly, then you’re fine, but for most people, that is not the case," she said. "This is not an industry that is thriving. It is an industry on its knees."
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  ^ Dammed if I won't. Been slipping through the cracks for a couple of years now and fits with a bunch of neo-noir (thanks, MM et al) I'm finally getting to. Wait, there's a series?
Posted by: Clyde Spique4897   2023-07-26 22:29  

#11  Watch "Get Shorty"
Posted by: Frank G   2023-07-26 18:29  

#10  As someone pointed out "Back then (Medieval times) being a fool was a job..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-26 16:41  

#9  There were reasons touring Medieval actors were not allowed into the population centers.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2023-07-26 16:37  

#8  ...well there are the journalists who also qualify in that thought.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-07-26 13:40  

#7  Good, couldn't happen to a more useless bunch fuckers than I can think of.
Posted by: Chris   2023-07-26 13:15  

#6  "This is not an industry that is thriving. It is an industry on its knees."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-07-26 12:28  

#5  "an industry on its knees"

Casting Couch Carpet
Posted by: Frank G   2023-07-26 11:11  

#4  So, it was actually a stunt.

Jeebus...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-07-26 10:59  

#3  Watch: ‘Indiana Jones’ Stunt Performer Lights Himself on Fire in Support of Hollywood Strike
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-07-26 10:46  

#2  We're about 2 generations away from doing it mostly in CGI and AI without a lot of these people. They won't disappear, but the traditional industry will shrink much like auto production or newspapers have since the 60s.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-07-26 07:29  

#1  When a pair of movie tickets, popcorn and a drink run close to $50. And you know you are feeding and supporting the FAR LEFT Agenda that the Hollywood is constantly is seen doing for attention.

Many are saying screw it, wait and Red-box it.

The only movie we have seen in the last 4 years in a theater, since Hollywood started playing vocal far left liberal politics, has been Sound Of Freedom.

It seems many other are Streaming movies using a Fire Stick, loaded with an app called Cinema-HD, ran over a VPN. Then watch the movie for free at home on the LCD 60+", along with drink and bag of pop-secret for under $5.

All without the constant distractions of cell phone blues lights, and other disruptions.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-07-26 06:31  

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