It’s the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. Our contribution will not be undervalued, and we will not be robbed,” said Baranski before concluding: “Let’s fight the good fight!”Įarlier this month, actors joined striking screenwriters who walked out in May. It is time, it is just simply time to make things right. “We will not live under corporate feudalism. Tituss Burgess didn’t speak he sang Stephen Sondheim.Ĭhristine Baranski of “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” likewise drew from her own credits. “Avatar” actor Stephen Lang quoted Frederick Douglass. The rally took place a stone’s throw from Broadway theaters and, given the talent involved, featured a higher degree of show business than your usual labor rally. We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living.” We don’t expect you to understand who we are but we ask you to hear us, and beyond that, to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots. “I know, sir, that you look through things from a different lens. Iger,” said Cranston, directing his comments at Disney CEO Bob Iger. At times, the actors took aim at the corporate lights and billboards around them, including the Walt Disney-owned ESPN and ABC studios that sat alongside the rally. Taking up a full city block, actors and representatives from the actors union took turns giving fiery speeches on a stage in the heart of Times Square while tourists gawked and passing trucks honked in support. Among those joining throngs of demonstrators were Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston, Brendan Fraser, Ellen Burstyn, Wendell Pierce, Steve Buscemi, Rachel Zegler, Michael Shannon, Jane Curtin, Christian Slater and Chloe Grace Moretz. NEW YORK - SAG-AFTRA held its largest and most star-studded rally yet Tuesday in Times Square in a picket sign-waving show of solidarity 12 days into the actors strike.Ī day after a Variety report questioned the lack of A-listers that have hit picket lines thus far, the rally Tuesday boasted more star wattage than perhaps any single strike action yet.
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