Temperatures and tempers surrounding the SAG-AFTRA strike are flaring up — actually.
On Monday, stunt actor Mike Massa, who was Harrison Ford’s stunt double in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, lit up the group at a union-member protest website by lighting himself on fireplace.
Massa and fellow stunt performer Elena Sanchez uploaded the spectacle to Sanchez’s Instagram yesterday, captioning the video, “We’re uninterested in being burned by the AMPTP.” (Affiliation of Movement Image and Tv Producers.)
Following the stunt, Massa posted a thanks to those that helped him: “We needed to make an announcement, and I feel we did! It was nice to see such an incredible turnout from our native Stunt group, native management, and actors who confirmed as much as assist us. It was an incredible day!”
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Feedback on the video are overwhelmingly supportive, with one commenter, Megan Joan Corridor, admitting that it left her a little bit squeamish. “That is nice,” she wrote. “However as an EMT it made me so uncomfortable that I am asking myself the place my trauma bag is.”
SAG-AFTRA (Display Actors Guild – American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists) has been on strike since July 14, grinding Hollywood to a halt. In a fiery speech, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher outlined the union’s calls for, with the details being a rise in base pay for performers, whose residuals have been diminished within the age of streaming, and protections towards producers utilizing AI to make use of computer-generated likenesses of stars with out pay or permission.
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Massa’s associate within the stunt, Sanchez, instructed Enterprise Insider that she’s “humbled by the assist and love” from those that seen the protest, including, “We’re trying ahead to getting again to work as soon as the AMPTP presents us a good deal.”
We, the viewing public, do too. With rumors of deadlocked negotiations occurring for a lot of months, the specter of watching Mates re-runs for the millionth time has us eager to gentle ourselves on fireplace, too.