Adam Conover Slams Studios’ Cold Strike Endgame: ‘They’re Not Starving Us Out, We’re Starving Them Out’ (Video)

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called a strike, a hot topic of conversation was the assertion by an unnamed studio executive that the studios’ endgame in the WGA strike was to “break the WGA” and allow the strike to go on until people lost their homes.

Ron Perlman came out swinging on Friday in direct response, and comedian, SAG-AFTRA member and WGA contract negotiating committee member Adam Conover slammed those comments himself on CNN Saturday, saying the striking writers and actors are going to be the ones starving the studios out.“I mean first of all, it’s offensive that the CEOs that we’re negotiating against literally said to the press that their goal is to starve us out until we lose our apartments and homes,” Conover told CNN’s Jim Acosta, referring to the unnamed executive’s comments in Deadline last week. “I think anybody hearing [that] would be incensed and insulted by that.

But also, they’re wrong because we’re the ones starving them out, we’re gonna be on the picket lines as long as it takes.”The “Adam Ruins Everything” star said the striking writers and actors understand the gravity of the situation at this moment and are protecting against lost careers down the line if they don’t win the protections for which they’re fighting.“The reason for that is that the companies, the streamers and studios, have spent the last 20 years making our work pay less.

Making it more precarious, less stable, making it harder to build a career, so all of these writers and actors know — myself included — that if we do not win this fight, we will not have careers to go back to in five years.