Tom Cruise Made Personal Plea To Studios And SAG Before Actors Strike
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Tom Cruise reportedly tried to use his major cachet in Hollywood to broker an agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. On Monday, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Cruise joined a June negotiating session via Zoom to advocate for the 160,000-member union’s positions on artificial intelligence protections and issues affecting the guild’s stunt performers. Cruise reportedly joined a SAG-AFTRA negotiating session via Zoom to advocate for the union's positions on AI and stunt performers. The strike bars actors from working on any productions, in addition to a ban from any “conventions, interviews, tours or promotion via social media of any struck work or struck companies.” This means Cruise won’t be doing additional press for his blockbuster sequel “Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One,” which has taken in $80 million at domestic box offices since its debut last week.