Thousands of French actors call for fair share of streaming profits

Karin Viard, one of 7,000 French actors who signed a letter calling on platforms to apply a 2021 law and better share streaming profits with those who appear in the films and television series. © Loic Venance/AFP

The day before the opening of the Cannes film festival, some 7,000 French actors called on streaming platforms for a more fair distribution of profits.

Echoing demands made by actors and screenwriters during the nearly four-month strike in Hollywood last year, French actors in an open letter published Sunday, are asking to be "compensated proportionally to the success of the work in which they collaborated".