'Honorary Canadian' Sheryl Lee Ralph fights the good fight

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The Emmy-winning actress is using her voice to advocate for teachers — like the one she plays on Abbott Elementary — and her fellow SAG-AFTRA union members.

and is part of the committee negotiating a new contract. While the strike meant we couldn't discuss her TV or film roles, there was plenty else to talk about while she was in Toronto promoting the MadeGood program — including how she's sustained herself through an extensive career, what brings her joy, and the outcome she hopes to see from the strike.No, I've been here before. I've worked here.

I see this not only in your personality, but also in your roles. How does being an actor satisfy you as an artist creatively? I'm glad that I'm able to stand now and look at them and see it was worth it. It was the right thing to do. Now when I look at my fanbase, it's like they're so young. It's like I have a huge child's fanbase.

So I would like to be able to see us, after this strike, come out with a working wage. I would like us as performers to own our art, especially when our art is ourselves with things like artificial intelligence, where they now have the capabilities to scan your body, take your movements, take who you are, put a different face on it, if they make you a different colour, but still keep the bones and the movement of who you are and then not pay you.

For me, the fact that these are educated people [and] we put the hearts and souls and minds of our greatest resource, our children, into their hands every day, and we don't want to pay them? I find it so disturbing that we would not make our children our priority in a way that says, "The people that you spend time with are going to be the best people that we can find and we are going to pay them to the best of our ability."It's terrible and our show shines the light on that.

 

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