Film and tv writers are, total, delighted with how issues turned out within the latest contract negotiations with the studios.

“I believe that we acquired every little thing that we actually, actually wished,” Writers Guild East president Lisa Takeuchi Cullen instructed the still-striking performers at a rally in New York for the actors union SAG-AFTRA just a few days in the past. “We did not get every little thing, and also you guys will not both. However I believe you are gonna get most of it.”

As SAG-AFTRA leaders head into talks Monday with the massive Hollywood studios, the union’s members are hoping for as favorable a deal because the writers union managed to safe with the studios final week. However the months of strikes will not be over as quick as some folks suppose.

“We have got an incredible negotiating staff,” Mentioned actor Jeff Rector, whose credit embrace Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology and American Horror Story amongst many different movies and TV exhibits over a profession spanning greater than 40 years. “Hopefully it will likely be resolved reasonably rapidly now that the writers strike has been resolved.”

Leisure business consultants are additionally hopeful a couple of speedy finish to the strikes, which started in Might with the writers union, the Writers Guild of America (WGA). The actors union went on strike in July. (Word: Many NPR workers are members of SAG-AFTRA, although journalists work underneath a distinct contract than the Hollywood actors.)

“The truth that this deal has been reached, I believe actually bodes properly transferring ahead for SAG-AFTRA,” mentioned Todd Holmes, assistant professor of leisure media administration at California State College Northridge.

Holmes mentioned the actors union ought to really feel inspired by the writers’ wins, like larger residuals and protections towards being changed by synthetic intelligence.

“That is what you’ll name ‘sample bargaining,’ the place normally one deal is labored out with one union, after which when the opposite union has a number of comparable issues that they have been asking for, then that normally falls in line fairly rapidly and settlement is reached,” Holmes mentioned.

The actors and writers went on strike with completely different calls for

However SAG-AFTRA strike captain Kate Bond, who’s greatest recognized for her function within the reboot of the TV collection MacGyver, mentioned she is not so sure a couple of speedy consequence.

“Lots of people do not perceive how completely different our calls for are from the WGA’s calls for,” Bond Mentioned.

Bond mentioned in contrast to the WGA, the actors union represents many kinds of performers — actors, dancers, stunt folks — every with particular wants that should be addressed.

Synthetic intelligence, for instance, is an particularly existential menace for background actors, a few of whom say they’ve already had their our bodies scanned for reuse.

So Bond mentioned negotiations with the studios’ commerce affiliation, the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) may take some time.

“The AMPTP is simply going to make use of each union busting trick that they’ve,” Bond mentioned.

The AMPTP didn’t reply to NPR’s request for remark.

Bond mentioned she’s grateful for the continued assist of writers because the actors proceed to battle. However now that the WGA’s members are busy getting again to work, she’s not anticipating to see so many allies on the picket line within the weeks forward.

“It isn’t that they are not ,” Bond mentioned. “It is that unexpectedly they’ve rather a lot to do.”

Some writers, comparable to Keshni Kashyap, who penned the Netflix collection Particular, are nonetheless planning to point out up. Kashyap mentioned her union would not have been capable of reduce a very good deal if it hadn’t been for the actors’ assist.

Kashyap mentioned she plans to hitch the actors on the picket line in Los Angeles on Monday.

“It feels actually necessary to go on the market and assist them as a result of visibility on the picket line is necessary to getting the type of leverage and deal that they need to be getting,” Kashyap mentioned. “Nothing can occur in Hollywood except they get again to work.”