Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
SAG-AFTRA is an American labor union representing working actors, performers, and broadcasters across television, film, radio, and digital media. It negotiates collective bargaining agreements with producers, administers member contracts, and advocates for performers' rights on issues such as residuals and workplace safety.www.sagaftra.org
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Sep 24, 2026
Kevin JacobsenHOST
So...
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Before we dive into Evan and Kate's performance, Kenzie, let's talk a little bit about the SAG Awards and just the kinds of performances that the Screen Actors Guild tends to gravitate toward and nominate, but that don't necessarily translate to Oscar nominations.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Do you think there's like a discrepancy in taste and preference going on there, even though it's like they're both voted on by actors? So what's going on there?
Kenzie VanunuGUEST
I actually think it's really funny comparing it to what you said about how they end up working together in Mildred Pierce, is that they do really love a TV actor in movies.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Certainly.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
Yeah.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
And I mean, I know I have been slightly dismissive in the past of the more middle brow taste of SAG voters who really love like that specific kind of performance, especially from a celebrity.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
But something I kind of do like about award season in general, I don't know if you agree, is that like even amid all the rubber stamping we see, each of these groups has a type of performance that or film that they like perhaps more than other groups.
Bobby FingerHOST
... people who are like...
Bobby FingerHOST
You know, you hear a lot of actors talk about how difficult it is to maintain their healthcare through SAG-
Lindsey WeberHOST
Mm
Bobby FingerHOST
...
Lindsey WeberHOST
Yeah
Bobby FingerHOST
...
Bobby FingerHOST
the actual details, but a lot of, like, to keep your SAG healthcare and all of your benefits-
Lindsey WeberHOST
You need points
HansHOST
Well, you're going to have to pay them $4,000 in advance so they can not.
HansHOST
In advance? No, but then they're SAG, right? We can't.
HansHOST
We have to wait for their SAG to expire.
HansHOST
Well, that's the
LowResHOST
risk, isn't it? They're trying to avoid the SAG card expiring or something.
LowResHOST
We could get SAG.
LowResHOST
We've worked with SAG.
LowResHOST
you don't want this guy to be the most expensive person on set though that is actually that would be more expensive than eric roberts academy
David KnightHOST
And is it something that is a part of their business model? but is it really necessary for them to be there? As a matter of fact, before we get into that, though, here's another fake AI personality that was out there.
David KnightHOST
We have somebody who has come up with an AI actor, quote-unquote, actually entered this AI actor, I think, in Screen Actors Guild.
David KnightHOST
I call it Tilly Norwood, and he's got an agent and so forth, and pushing them out there.
David KnightHOST
Well, Piers Morgan... did an interview with this Tilly Norwood.
Stephen FenechHOST
Okay.
Stephen FenechHOST
Now, for her performance, Julia Roberts became the first actress to simultaneously win Best The Best Actress at the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTA Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes.
Stephen FenechHOST
Wow, that is massive, right? All five major awards.
Stephen FenechHOST
There's often
Alrik BursellHOST
that's awesome if you can say what was the rough budget of the film
Zoe Alyce SalnaveGUEST
so it's a little difficult to say but it's a little difficult to calibrate but because we got so much student discounting and because we got so much like in-kind donation of like space equipment and things from Warner Brothers I think we spent about $200,000, but when they've done the budget of what it would have been had we paid for things and had we paid for actors, right, where everyone was SAG deferred, it was about $2 million, $2 million plus.
Alrik BursellHOST
Ooh.
Alrik BursellHOST
Wow.
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Liz ManashilHOST
We had a pitching class and that was it.
Liz ManashilHOST
With 10 directors in a class format, I understand that your producers had a certain level of autonomy.
Liz ManashilHOST
But did you feel any sort of pressure to cast for distribution, for marketing, or was it that you used that SAG agreement that USC has and you just found the best people?
Zoe Alyce SalnaveGUEST
A little bit of both, but there was a lot of pressure to make sure that we casted well for it and casted some names.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
Right.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
So in going to L.A. and pursuing acting, my career went a weird way because i got breast cancer when i was 24. so i was you know i was i got into the screen actors guild again it was about relationships and being having a good work ethic and i asked i did all those things if you want we talk about that at any point how i got into sag but i got into the screen actors guild uh in the future i wound up helping a bunch of my friends get into the screen actors guild and we all did it legally and ethically and it was really fun we made an awesome movie And then once my hair fell out, I was going through, you know, chemo, radiation, having multiple surgeries.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
It was expensive to get new headshots all the time when my hair was like, didn't, I didn't have any hair.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
And then it was like this long and then it was this long.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
Like, you know, we had cell phones back then.
Elysia SkyeGUEST
I wasn't on my phone.
Kristen FordHOST
And just to cut in quick, I want to hear the end of the story, but you went through something devastating, cancer and coming back from it, and then going from Screen Actors Guild actor, top 5% of actors in SAG, and... now you're working at the apple store at the mall and you are talking about it with with joy and saying how it set you up for this next exciting stuff like working with yeah so that's so funny
Elysia SkyeGUEST
yeah i mean i would like i'd have to go take off my wig and just because i was having a hot flash from chemo and vomit brush my teeth and then go back out onto the floor you know uh but it was what it was and then like trying to bartend and just do all the things you know and look i never made it as like a super successful actor but i worked consistently you know i worked all the time and it was fun i just kept having fun i'm looking down as i'm petting my dog who's asleep on my chair so when i knew i needed to keep working i didn't i actually got fired from apple because i took i requested too much time off for chemo
Stephen FenechHOST
Okay.
Stephen FenechHOST
Now, for her performance, Julia Roberts became the first actress to simultaneously win Best The Best Actress at the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, the BAFTA Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes.
Stephen FenechHOST
Wow, that is massive, right? All five major awards.
Stephen FenechHOST
There's often
Indiana UnderhillHOST
Um, and I say our feature because Haley and I just came back from Savannah, Georgia, um, after a 21-day feature film shoot.
Indiana UnderhillHOST
It was a SAG ultra low budget production, and it was a whirlwind.
Haeleigh RoyallHOST
Yeah.
Haeleigh RoyallHOST
It was a lot.
Sky ElobarGUEST
I did that.
Sky ElobarGUEST
And then I got this movie like a month or so later and it got me in SAG.
Sky ElobarGUEST
Okay.
Sky ElobarGUEST
And then once I got in SAG, it was like, oh my God, it was so much better being in SAG and not being non-union.
Sky ElobarGUEST
It's terrible.
DeanHOST
Because
Sky ElobarGUEST
they really fucking abused the non-union people.
Sky ElobarGUEST
But SAG, when you have a union, they're like, they like back off.
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