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Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: ‘It Takes Two to Tango…the Companies Aren’t Stepping Up’

SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator on AI, the state of negotiations and that possible six-month timetable

On the heels of Netflix earnings and Ted “Union Son” Sarandos expressing he is “super committed” to ending the strike, Elaine Low caught up with SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland to get his take on Wall Street’s impact on the impasse (2:09), stickiest issues on the table (including AI, 3:27), whether actors could really stand to go on strike for six months, as SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said earlier (7:10), and how he and Drescher work together (9:40).

Transcript here.

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