Dispatches From The Picket Lines, Day 73: Actors Join Writers Ahead Of First Official Day Of SAG-AFTRA Strike After Talks Collapse
deadline.comSAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher will be doing a tour of Hollywood picket lines tomorrow morning, after her rousing speech saying they were victimized by the AMPTP, which she called a “very greedy entity” and that the studios were on the wrong side of history.
But despite not officially joining the picket lines for their own strike until tomorrow, there were plenty of actors out in force, as they have been for all 73 days of the writers strike.
The Afterparty star Ike Barinholtz, who has been outside Paramount for much of the strike, was walking the like with Michael McDonald, who was on Madtv and has recently appeared in What We Do In The Shadows and How I Met Your Father. “We’re triply angry, we’ve triple had it up to here.
We’re excited SAG is going to start coming out and show some solidarity,” Barinholtz told Deadline. McDonald added, “Maybe we can collectively get this thing done and get back to work.”“Maybe we can collectively get this thing done and everybody can get back to work”: Ike Barinholtz and Michael McDonald tell Deadline in LA on the picket line today #WritersStrike #SAGAFTRA pic.twitter.com/iWxMxMWSHV Drescher and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland noted that the talks didn’t come close to a deal.
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