“Residuals are really important to the jobbing actor and even the more successful actors rely on residuals because with long periods of unemployment, they’re kind of like royalties or licence fees that as long as the project you’ve been part of has a life, you get paid and share in those profits over a long period of time,” he said.
O’Mara added that what was “worrying” in relation to AI was “we don’t quite fully understand it yet so we don’t quite know what’s going to happen there. It’s about tightening the regulations … to create a framework to protect actors from exploitation as we enter this kind of uncertain time.”The strike by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists marks the first time in 63 years that Hollywood writers and actors are striking simultaneously.