I mean, I was supposed to do a vet show, and now maybe I can.
Or, as Garagos tells me today, payback is a bitch.
If and when they do, this post will be updated.
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RENEE POCHE:Im very excited.
Its amazing, really, for all of us.
DEADLINE: These NDAs hold a tremendous amount of power.
Attorneys Mark Geragos (L) and Bryan Freedman leave the Van Nuys West Courthouse on November 25, 2024ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images
POCHE:Thats the goal.
BRYAN FREEDMAN:I think its the most powerful thing thats come down in the history of reality television.
And the reason its so powerful is because they found something like 30 violations in these contracts.
And these contracts arent just something thats being used by Kinetic or byNetflixthroughLove is Blind.
These are used throughout the industry.
DEADLINE:Was that all-encompassing?
All these people should be paid back.
Theyre entitled to compensation for what they could have been working on.
Theyre held to clauses that get them in trouble if they speak.
DEADLINE:And potentially now?
She can do whatever she wants to do.
She can have a podcast.
She can be in the media.
She can be on another show.
So, as the result of this is what Mark and I have been talking about all along.
MARK GERAGOS:The NLRB got interested for the same reason Bryan and I did.
DEADLINE:Which was?
GERAGOS:We were doing a lot of these reality cases, and then Renees case came up.
Now, you know, I like to say the proof is in the eating of the pudding.
Now its time they went and took it to an extreme.
Now were going to take it to an extreme.
Payback is a bitch.
Oh, do you want to just walk away?.
No, Im not going to walk away, after all this nonsense.
DEADLINE:So Kinetic put a settlement on the table?
FREEDMAN:It was a few weeks ago.
I think they saw the gauntlet coming down on them a few weeks ago.
Yeah, a settlement, as long as she didnt speak about it.
GERAGOS:Its crazy, you cant just restrict peoples livelihood.
I mean, its unbelievable.
Were not going to let you speak…
I mean, I was supposed to do a vet show, and now maybe I can.
DEADLINE: Is it that straightforward?
POCHE:Well, no.
Everyone now is scared of me, to work with me.
I mean, if you think about it, half the stuff we had to do with acting.
Its just them telling us what to say, what to do, where to be.
Its all the same thing in the end.
There will be unionization.
This is going to be a reckoning, but just like we predicted.
That day is over.
This is just the beginning.
