Hi, I'm Sharon Stone and I am running as a Membership First National Delegate and National Board Member because I want a seat at the table at the next negotiations. I am running with Matthew Modine and Joely Fisher because, well, I love them. And I know that they're great people and that they have your best interests at heart.
And when I say you, I mean us as actors, you know, things have not been going well for us. I don't think you need me to tell you that. I mean, I lost my vested insurance after 43 years in the business because of Covid. I was $13 short and, you know, I don't really think that that is reasonable for any of us when we go through a global pandemic, to lose decades worth of our insurance or to lose all of the things that we need when we're trying to put food on the table, we're trying to keep our homes, and we're trying to feed our kids, families. This is a very, very, very tough time. And we have all been through so much.
Film and television family is struggling and we need representation that says that we understand one another, that we understand that we are all all going through a devastating time and that we need better representation. We don't need to get our contracts the day we arrive at work and we don't need to have people trying to take our likeness and image for
"in perpetuity," whatever the heck that means. We need someone who shows up for us and someone who negotiates for us in streaming services, in film and in television and computer, as it exists today, not in the way that we were told, oh, it was just a passing, fancy. It is not, and it is our lifestyle. And we are struggling
