Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Hear From Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kal Penn, Others As Actors & Writers Hit The Streets Of Manhattan

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It’s Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Writers and actors on strike simultaneously for the first time in more than 60 years fanned out across Manhattan on Tuesday morning with renewed demands for better pay, more job security and limits on the use of artificial intelligence in film and television.

The Writers Guild of America and the SAG-AFTRA ran picket lines at four locations near the offices of NBCUniversal, Paramount, Amazon, HBO, Netflix and Warner Bros.

Discovery. WGA marchers said they welcomed SAG-AFTRA members joining them on strike as of Friday, after months of backing the Writers Guild in its dispute with the major film and television production companies.  “It does feel different,” writer, comedian and WGA East member Josh Gondelman said outside NBCUniversal headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where marchers included acting couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and veteran Law & Order: Criminal Intent actress Kathryn Erbe. “It’s really heartening to have this infusion of energy and the same righteous anger out on the lines that we had.”WHY WE’RE STRIKING: “The studios have been making a lot of free money for a really long time, and the time for that to come to an end is now…” Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, SAG-AFTRA #ActorsStrike pic.twitter.com/GCE7tUtuJQ Gondelman noted how much actor support the writers already have had since they went on strike in early May. “There have been a ton of SAG-AFGTRA members that have been out there for 75, 78 days already, which I think just shows you how in it that union is as well,” he said. “They’ve already been out here.