Mr MacDonald said: “There’s a system that provides production with a full protection, so what they do is they suspend the crew and the cast, there’s no actually ongoing costs to them but the individuals are still under contract to the production.
Members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have been on strike since July 14 after negotiations over new contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down. “But every day of your working life screwed over by the same producers who are screwing over our comrades in the United States around the world means… that you tend to know who the real enemy is in this situation.”
The Writers Guild of America began industrial action on May 2 over similar issues including pay and the threat of artificial intelligence .