The actor said studios and streamers 'really need to rethink how you do business and share the wealth with people. Otherwise, this is all going to come crashing down.”
Gunn played Kirk, a quirky resident that lived in Stars Hollow, in the WB-produced series that originally ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007. He then reprised his role in Netflix’s 2016 revival,Guardians of the Galaxy
star proceeded to call out co-CEO Ted Sarandos and executive chair Reed Hastings for giving “each other bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars.” “I don’t understand why they can’t lessen those bonuses to share the wealth more with the people who have created the content that has gotten them rich,” he continued. “It really is a travesty. And if the answer is, ‘Well, this is just how business is done, this is just how corporate business works,’ that sucks. That makes you a bad person. And you really need to rethink how you do business and share the wealth with people. Otherwise, this is all going to come crashing down.
The dramedy, which initially ran on The WB, and then eventually The CW, has been a popular title for Netflix since it was added to the streamer nearly a decade ago. But, based on the way current deals are structured, just because a show is performing well on a streamer doesn’t mean actors are getting bigger residual checks from the studio.
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