WGA Strike Update: Celebs on the Picket Lines

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As the Writers Guild of America continues to be forced to strike for fair pay for the second week, many actors and performers have joined the writers on the picket lines. Some are members of both WGA and SAG-AFTRA, but others are just showing up in solidarity. Bob Odenkirk, Brit Lower, Adam Scott, Mandy Patinkin,

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[filmstudent23]

Not a single A-List on sight smh
And I’m not bringing this up to shade the event at all or something like that. It’s just that the A-List actors benefit the most and are the most outspoken about being on the crew and writers side but when it comes to action, they’re suddenly too busy

[ripqueequeg]

Yeah, and its all mostly tv people/comedy people which...says a lot about the bigger stars

[wwgrogudo]

Idt it's shade at all!

They are in a union already - where are Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, The Rock, Julia Roberts, George Clooney etc??

[pseudonygma]

None of them would have the career they do if it wasn't for the writers giving them such iconic lines to work with. It's shameful.

[la_petite_singe]

I wanna know who's NOT there tbh 👀

[tomelette]

Pedro Pascal isn't there. I've been half-expecting him to show up if I'm being honest. Mentioning while accepting MTV Awards was nice but who actually watched MTV Awards?

[justabwaybaby]

Sort of related- the PAs at Disney are trying to unionize and Disney already was like "... nah." So they had some sort of big meeting/ screening for the film my family member is working on and when it ended one of the big animation union guys shouted "who's strong?" And I guess everyone responded "production strong!" And went back to their offices chanting and shit and the director was like 😳

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Yeah, these studios have fucked around with employees for too long and they are absolutely not having it! Hopefully they can form a union eventually - PAs do shit work for no money and long days, and it sucks.

I really hope the studios realize it'd be better to address this stuff head-on than drag it out and have every union striking, but I am not optimistic.

[justabwaybaby]

Yeah, I've heard of more than one PA being hospitalized for exhaustion. I've also heard of one basically being told to find another job since she had a kid. I really hope they can pull it off but, yeah, not optimistic. Gotta have record profits and lay off people.

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SAC UP AND PAY AND PROTECT OUR WRITERS!!!!! @sagaftra @WGAWest @WGAEast #UnionStrong #wga #wgastrike pic.twitter.com/qlYgI9cv6o
- mae whitman (@maebirdwing) May 10, 2023

Mae Whitman is out there, too.

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a good Egg!

[tomelette]

"Toss a coin to your writer." is good!

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not many here will probably know who he is but Sam Riegel from Critical Role joined the picket line at Netflix yesterday with one of his kids. he picketed on the weekend too, I think at Universal Studios?

[la_loony]

Both kids even I think. Future union members in whatever field they get into hopefully^^

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Did his sign mention D&D Beyond

[einodia]

TIL he's had periodic writing credits on various stuff since 2006, including writing a few episodes of TLoVM! Glad to see him!