As the Writers Guild of America strike continues with no end in sight, rumours are swirling that the Directors Guild of America and SAG-ACTRA will be following suit when those unions’ contracts come up within the next few weeks.
11.05.2023 - 15:05 / etcanada.com
Mandy Patinkin is feeling the rage.
On Wednesday, the 70-year-old actor channeled his “The Princess Bride” character Inigo Montoya while standing on the picket line in New York in support of striking writers.
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Writers Guild of America strikers were picketing outside the Amazon and HBO offices when Patinkin joined them with a sign reading, “You killed residuals, prepare to pay!”
The sign was, of course, a reference to his character’s iconic line “You killed my father. Prepare to die!” from the 1987 classic.
“Writers are asking for fairness: when the studios invest millions into producing a certain film or series, they can find it in their budgets to pay writers for the value they create. This is not rocket science. Do the right things,” he wrote in the caption of an Instagram post, along with photos from the picket line.
In one of the photos, Patinkin holds up the sign while posing with “Better Call Saul” star Bob Odenkirk, writing in the comments, “Sauls always strike together.”
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On Twitter, a clip went viral of Patinkin on the picket line, ranting against the executives and large corporations the writers are striking against.
“Don’t be stupid! Make sure you take care of people!” he said angrily. “You guys make millions and million of dollars! For God’s sakes! Without the writers, we have nothing! They create the stories that make our hearts beat! Help out now!”
Patinkin has been vocally supportive of the WGA, who are fighting for higher residuals for writers, along with rules surrounding staffing of writers rooms, protections from A.I. technology
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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Colin Farrell, Mariska Hargitay, Danny Strong, Paula Pell, Rachel Dratch, Michael Kelly and Craig Zobel were among the stars who came out to the writers strike picket line outside Paramount Global’s New York City office in Times Square Thursday. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D.-N.Y., and local politicians spoke at the event in support of the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) cause against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that has led to a four-week-and-counting work stoppage due to the organizations’ inability to ink a new contract May 1. “This is about what’s right. We’ve seen income inequality grow exponentially over the last decade; and in your business, it has never been more present,” Gillibrand said to the crowd, filled with not only WGA members, but also those from SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and Teamsters, among other unions. “We see writers working hard every day to produce content and we have an unfair playing field. Not only does AI want to displace our writers, they simply can’t. AI generates content based on what’s been written before the work you did last year, and the year before. It’s not original. It’s not imaginative. It doesn’t come from the human heart. It’s not about a human experience. It’s not about what people actually want to learn about or know about or see or experience. That is what writers bring to the equation every single time. So this strike is so important for the future of this country. It’s about the value of workers; workers and what they create is fundamentally valuable.”
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tweeted a selfie at the New York picket lines captioned “Let’s do this.”Odenkirk and Patinkin also posed together for a photo, which the latter captioned with: “Saul’s unite.” In addition to Odenkirk’s work as Saul Goodman, Patinkin is also known for playing a character named Saul in “Homeland.”Saul’s unite! #wgastrong Support our writers! pic.twitter.com/VdyElwh7C5Adam Scott, who can most recently be seen in “Severance,” also joined the picket line. Ran into Mandy Patinkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Adam Scott on the WGA picket line.
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“You make billions/pay us some!” striking Writers Guild of America members chanted on the street of New York today near where filming was going on for Showtime’s Billions.