Looks like all those early concerns about whether name stars would walk the picket line ended up being a waste of energy: a strike captain on Saturday recognized Day 100 of the SAG-AFTRA strike by calling out many of the big names who joined the rank and file in those daily protests.
Dispatches From The Picket Line: Actors Including Jon Cryer Are “Cautiously Optimistic” As Talks Restart
02.10.2023 - 22:25 / deadline.com
This is Day 82 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
There’s solidarity in the air in LA with a slew of writers continuing to join the actors’ picket lines after securing their own deal with the AMPTP.
As talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studio alliance restart, the picket lines, now focused on the actors requests, are still busy and, as seen this morning, full of “cautious optimism.”
Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer, whose upcoming NBC comedyExtended Family has shot the first six episodes, told Deadline, “The writers got real progress. I have constantly voiced my frustration with the AMPTP for not starting the negotiations a lot sooner. But it’s better than nothing.”
He added that he’s preparing himself for a deal “however long it takes.”
His biggest worry about the future of the entertainment industry, as it pertains to actors, is the “hollowing out of the industry.”
“When you lose your middle tier of performer, you hollow out the entire industry,” he said, speaking outside Warner Bros. Discovery in LA. “You make your TV shows without a real professionalized base of people and if everybody’s forced to do this as a hobby, your industry collapses. That’s why I have always felt like that that we were on the actually on the same side as the AMPTP. We want this to be a healthy industry. We want them to succeed. We want them to make record profits, that’s fantastic, share them with us and that will allow us to have a huge professional group of actors at your beck and call.”
Michael Ealy, who has starred in series such as Reasonable Doubt and Stumptown, told Deadline that he hopes the momentum from the writers deal will help “propel” the actors.
“It’s not hard to maintain optimism. It’s ultimately something you have to do. These things
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