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! Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom || @damianbellino || @rodemanne 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!