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These Models Marched the SAG-AFTRA Picket Lines. Now They’re Fighting Against AI ‘Digital Blackface’ and Working for ‘Glorified Pimps’
Models are pushing for workplace protections against racism, sexual misconduct and more in an industry that remains largely unregulated.
Like many actors who marched on the picket lines during last year’s historic SAG-AFTRA strike, Sutherland is now calling for similar workplace protections for the men, women and children whose faces front the $2.5 trillion fashion industry. “And the producer had the nerve to call my agent and say, ‘Mame showed up two hours late, so we don’t feel justified to pay her.’ We shot in Palm Springs in the dead of winter in bikinis under a windmill in in 60 mile-per-hour winds. Former model Kai Braden, who joined SAG in 2008 and whose credits include “ NCIS: Hawaii,” “Magnum P.I.” and “Orange Is the New Black” says the fashion industry has reached an inflection point, and now is the time to act.
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