Hollywood actors join WGA in historic double strike. ‘This is all of our fight’
LA TimesActors joined writers on picket lines on Friday as SAG-AFTRA launched its own strike against studios and streamers after the two sides failed to reach a deal for a new contract. “There are shows that are streaming globally 24 hours a day, and no one wants to reveal the metrics and compensate people for what they’re worth, whether they’re actors or writers,” Konowal said. Whether you are a guest actor or give five lines, we’re all supporting the bigger actors, and it’s just gotten harder and harder.” Brad Greenquist, 63, who has been in the union since 1985, picketed outside Netflix’s headquarters alongside his son Sebastian Schier, 25, who recently appeared in the final episode of the Hulu series “Tiny Beautiful Things” and works in a restaurant to make ends meet. I always shrink away whenever a or someone tried to grab me for that, but there’s only so much you can do as a person with no pull.” The AMPTP has disputed SAG-AFTRA’s characterization of studios’ and streamers’ stance toward AI, saying its offer to the actors’ union “protects performers’ digital likenesses, including a requirement for performer’s consent for the creation and use of digital replicas or for digital alterations of a performance.” Kirstiana Bleu Rosas, 31, picketed outside Amazon Studios’ headquarters in Culver City as her 6-month-old son slept in a stroller. But that has not been the case.” Walking the picket line outside Amazon Studios, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, co-creator of CBS’ “S.W.A.T.,” said that, more than two months into the writers’ strike, he and his fellow WGA members welcome the addition of SAG-AFTRA to the fight.