After fire fires destroyed deviation of Los Angeles during the first part of 2025, producers for Sunday’s Sag Awards hope that the 31st annual ceremony can be a “warm hug” for the acting society.
“It has been such an attempt of the year for so many people, and I think we just want the show to be a warm hug for everyone – being able to take a couple of hours, smile a little, laugh or two,“ Mark Bracco, like The executive produces the show along Silent House’s Baz Halpin, Linda Gierahn and Jon Brockett told Thewrap.
Although the fire fires led to Cancellation of the nomination message event During the first week of January, the producers decided to keep the show for their February 23 as a way to support the city’s rebuilding process, with Gierahn who noted: “It was so important for us to really be aware of all the people behind the scenes working in it Here the industry and really count on price expulsion. “
Brockett added to hold the show that planned translates to working for everyone from hair and makeup teams to drivers and hotel workers and said: “It is part of this finances that we wanted to help continue.”
In the wake of the fire fires and the subsequent aid efforts that were formed over the city, Brockett realized how much he loved Los Angeles, that he, along with many other Angelenos, felt like his time in the city has been a “roller coaster.”
“I felt a connection to the city that I did not have before, and I think we started watching the show through that lens,” Brockett said. “This is really a letter of love for LA – a letter of love for its resilience, its determination. It is the heart of the entertainment industry. “
With this goal in mind, Bracco explained that this year’s theme centers at LA as “City of Dreams and Dreammakers”, and notes “Many actors come here to realize their dreams and make them reality.” When producers embrace stories of humble beginning and early, careers who led the nominees and other participants begin to be in a room full of successful actors, they decided to lean into the Nostalgia factor for this year’s ceremony.
“We really want to lean into nostalgia in your favorite movies, your favorite programs,” Bracco said. “We love … that the actors love to talk about how they started and how LA was such an important part of so many people who realize their dreams.”
The nostalgia will certainly appear when actors, producer, writer and activist Jane Fonda receive the Sag Life Achievement Award, with Gierahn who notes her reverence while putting together the package for Fonda’s price. “You are reminded of her amazing career that is still going,” Gierahn said. “I was blown away when I looked back at her career.”
Of course, the “I am A ACTOR” segment, which has been a tradition for the Sag Awards for the past 30 years, will remain a “signature moment” on Sunday, although Brockett shared the arrangement will currently be held under cover.
With last year’s SAG awards that came months after the turbulent actors’ strike, the destruction and grief in the wake of the fire fires gave the producers “even more an assignment to unite everyone” for Sunday’s ceremony.
“It’s very family friendly. It feels like a reunion on steroids, “Brockett said. “It’s just actors, so everyone feels it’s their room, it’s their night, it’s their party. There is only this comfort, there is a feeling of ease in the room, but also this electricity, as they are all capable of getting in touch with each other. “
That assignment for belonging extends to the audience in Netflix Livestreamed ending, with Bracco that says: “Everyone who looks at home … (can) feel this sense of love and friendship between this group of people and these artists who make all TV programs And the movies you love. “It may include another couple of reunions, Bracco noted, after receiving positive feedback from last year’s reunions, including” The Devil Wears Prada. “
As Kristen Bell, who is nominated for the outstanding performance of a female actor in a comedy series for “nobody wants this”, takes Roret as the host, produces the producers that she has “many friends who are nominated,” including CO – Star Adam Brody.
“I think we will have a lot of fun with her connections to people and start the show in a way that Sag Awards haven’t really started before,” Bracco said. “She will have fun and play.”
The 31st annual ceremony marks the second time Netflix will live the SAG Award, again allows the show to be limited by strict telecoast places or commercial breaks. The biggest advantage of this is not to play winners during their speeches, Brockett said.
“We just don’t want to cancel them – we never have, and we won’t,” Brockett said. “We have the luxury of being on Netflix that allows us some extra time, so it’s something we will definitely continue.”
Unlike other broadcast prices that deliver ratings through Nielsen, the viewer for Sag Awards will not be immediately available via Netflix, with Brockett that notes Netflix is ”famous opaque” if their viewers, even if Streamer has increased their openness. Last year 2024 SAG AWARDS It was not possible to crack in Netflix’s most guarded television program For the week and Netflix’s semi -year -old data dump The show revealed the 2024 show had collected 1.8 million views during the first half of 2024.
“We are so lucky to be on Netflix and have a global audience,” Brockett said. “Our goal is to just create the best, most entertaining show for both our core audience and for a hopefully newer audience.”
