Iain Blair

Chatting with an old friend, veteran production sound mixer Lee Orloff, about how the current strike is affecting the rank-and-file. Orloff has worked on many high profile shoots, including “Terminator 2” (for which he won an Oscar), “The Abyss” (we hung out on the S. Carolina set together), “Heat” and all three of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, and Lee sums it up for many when he says, “The real strike that’s really hitting us in movies is the fact that SAG’s contract is up in June and so the producers are really feeling the heat now. When we get done with the next show and wrap, they’ll know they may not have the actors available to go back in and do any ADR. That’s the REAL scary one. The studios won’t even greenlight a project that won’t wrap before that deadline.”

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