Comedians energize the picket traces as Hollywood actors and writers strikes enter second week
8 min readBy Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: The mixed strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters entered its second week with no swift finish in sight, and union leaders and star strikers, together with a bevvy of comedians, tried to spice up morale Friday because the novelty of picket traces wears off.
“The momentum is still building,” stated stand-up comedian, author and actor Marc Maron exterior Netflix headquarters. “I got some of my comedy buddies — we’re like, let’s go, let’s make sure we’re there and we show up for our union. There’s a lot of people here and look, eventually, they have to, they have to negotiate, right?”
Maron starred on the sequence “GLOW” for Netflix, whose headquarters in an more and more hip part of Hollywood has been a bustling hub in the course of the strike, with music blasting and meals vehicles serving ice cream, shaved ice and churros.
His fellow comedians and comedian actors abounded on the picket line, together with “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia” alum Fred Armisen, “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor Chelsea Peretti, “What We Do in the Shadows” vampire Mark Proksch, and longtime comedy group Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, who stated they weren’t optimistic a few fast finish to the strike.
“I think it’s going to be a long struggle, a long fight,” Heidecker stated. “We’re going to have to be out here until we get what we need to get.”
But they had been assured about discovering sustenance to get them via it.
“There’s an Arby’s here and Eric hasn’t eaten Arby’s in a year,” Heidecker stated.
“It’s been 364 days since I had a big roast beef and we’re doing it today,” Wareheim stated.
It has been tougher for picketers to maintain the power up at extra sprawling company campuses like Warner Bros. Studios and Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, the place a Southern California warmth wave hit arduous all week.
But because the strike has begun to stretch on, the common look of star writers and actors has given a jolt to picket traces in each LA and New York, and offered high-profile voices on points which are key to each writers and actors — higher pay and preserving established practices like residual funds, in addition to safety from the usage of synthetic intelligence.
Roughly 65,000 actors — the overwhelming majority of whom make lower than $27,000 a 12 months from their display screen work — together with 11,500 screenwriters, are on strike.
On Friday, actors in London rallied in solidarity with their Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists brethren. Stars together with Brian Cox, Andy Serkis, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg and Imelda Staunton gathered with different performers and manufacturing crew in Leicester Square for the demonstration organized by British actors’ union Equity.
They chanted “One struggle, one fight, we support SAG-AFTRA fight” and “The luvvies, united, will never be defeated,” utilizing a British slang time period for actors.
Cox, who performed media mogul Logan Roy in “Succession,” stated, “I think we are at the thin end of a horrible wedge,” with synthetic intelligence shaking the foundations of actors’ work.
“The wages are one thing, but the worst aspect is the whole idea of AI and what AI can do to us,” he stated. “AI is the really, really serious thing. And it’s the thing where we’re most vulnerable.”
The British actors’ union will not be on strike, although many members are additionally a part of the U.S. union.
Cox stated it was vital actors confirmed solidarity with putting screenwriters within the Writers Guild of America.
“We’re just like pieces of furniture without writers,” he stated.
Serkis, who has turn into a specialist in enjoying digitally created characters since he first performed Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” saga 20 years in the past, stated “I’m probably one of the most scanned actors on the planet.”
“I know that my image can be used, or my library of movements, can be used or my voice,” he stated, including that it “is wrong that that is easily accessed and used without remunerating the artist.”
In the U.S., Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago had been among the many main cities with strike occasions Wednesday and Thursday, demonstrating that movie manufacturing does not simply occur in New York and Los Angeles.
There’s no indication when negotiations with studios and streaming firms, that are represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, will resume. The group has stated they’ve supplied each writers and actors substantial pay will increase and have tried to fulfill different calls for.
“Please come back to the table, please be realistic, please have a little bit more socialism in your heart and think of the people who make the money for you,” “Mission Impossible” star Pegg urged studios and streaming providers.
Many on the picket traces within the U.S. have seized upon feedback by their company bosses like Disney CEO Bob Iger, who final week known as the unions’ calls for “not realistic.”
During an earnings occasion Wednesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos stated grew up in a union family and knew the strike was painful on staff and their households.
“We’re super committed to getting to an agreement as soon as possible. One that’s equitable and one that enables the unions, the industry and everybody in it to move forward into the future,” he stated.
LOS ANGELES: The mixed strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters entered its second week with no swift finish in sight, and union leaders and star strikers, together with a bevvy of comedians, tried to spice up morale Friday because the novelty of picket traces wears off.
“The momentum is still building,” stated stand-up comedian, author and actor Marc Maron exterior Netflix headquarters. “I got some of my comedy buddies — we’re like, let’s go, let’s make sure we’re there and we show up for our union. There’s a lot of people here and look, eventually, they have to, they have to negotiate, right?”
Maron starred on the sequence “GLOW” for Netflix, whose headquarters in an more and more hip part of Hollywood has been a bustling hub in the course of the strike, with music blasting and meals vehicles serving ice cream, shaved ice and churros.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
His fellow comedians and comedian actors abounded on the picket line, together with “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia” alum Fred Armisen, “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor Chelsea Peretti, “What We Do in the Shadows” vampire Mark Proksch, and longtime comedy group Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, who stated they weren’t optimistic a few fast finish to the strike.
“I think it’s going to be a long struggle, a long fight,” Heidecker stated. “We’re going to have to be out here until we get what we need to get.”
But they had been assured about discovering sustenance to get them via it.
“There’s an Arby’s here and Eric hasn’t eaten Arby’s in a year,” Heidecker stated.
“It’s been 364 days since I had a big roast beef and we’re doing it today,” Wareheim stated.
It has been tougher for picketers to maintain the power up at extra sprawling company campuses like Warner Bros. Studios and Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, the place a Southern California warmth wave hit arduous all week.
But because the strike has begun to stretch on, the common look of star writers and actors has given a jolt to picket traces in each LA and New York, and offered high-profile voices on points which are key to each writers and actors — higher pay and preserving established practices like residual funds, in addition to safety from the usage of synthetic intelligence.
Roughly 65,000 actors — the overwhelming majority of whom make lower than $27,000 a 12 months from their display screen work — together with 11,500 screenwriters, are on strike.
On Friday, actors in London rallied in solidarity with their Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists brethren. Stars together with Brian Cox, Andy Serkis, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg and Imelda Staunton gathered with different performers and manufacturing crew in Leicester Square for the demonstration organized by British actors’ union Equity.
They chanted “One struggle, one fight, we support SAG-AFTRA fight” and “The luvvies, united, will never be defeated,” utilizing a British slang time period for actors.
Cox, who performed media mogul Logan Roy in “Succession,” stated, “I think we are at the thin end of a horrible wedge,” with synthetic intelligence shaking the foundations of actors’ work.
“The wages are one thing, but the worst aspect is the whole idea of AI and what AI can do to us,” he stated. “AI is the really, really serious thing. And it’s the thing where we’re most vulnerable.”
The British actors’ union will not be on strike, although many members are additionally a part of the U.S. union.
Cox stated it was vital actors confirmed solidarity with putting screenwriters within the Writers Guild of America.
“We’re just like pieces of furniture without writers,” he stated.
Serkis, who has turn into a specialist in enjoying digitally created characters since he first performed Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” saga 20 years in the past, stated “I’m probably one of the most scanned actors on the planet.”
“I know that my image can be used, or my library of movements, can be used or my voice,” he stated, including that it “is wrong that that is easily accessed and used without remunerating the artist.”
In the U.S., Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago had been among the many main cities with strike occasions Wednesday and Thursday, demonstrating that movie manufacturing does not simply occur in New York and Los Angeles.
There’s no indication when negotiations with studios and streaming firms, that are represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, will resume. The group has stated they’ve supplied each writers and actors substantial pay will increase and have tried to fulfill different calls for.
“Please come back to the table, please be realistic, please have a little bit more socialism in your heart and think of the people who make the money for you,” “Mission Impossible” star Pegg urged studios and streaming providers.
Many on the picket traces within the U.S. have seized upon feedback by their company bosses like Disney CEO Bob Iger, who final week known as the unions’ calls for “not realistic.”
During an earnings occasion Wednesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos stated grew up in a union family and knew the strike was painful on staff and their households.
“We’re super committed to getting to an agreement as soon as possible. One that’s equitable and one that enables the unions, the industry and everybody in it to move forward into the future,” he stated.
