It’s Day 1 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 75 of the WGA strike. The stars are out in force on the first day of the actors strike and, as Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur said, “Now a thousand very attractive people have shown up and joined the lines, it’s an enormous amount of wind in our sails”.

Schur, a member of the WGA negotiating committee who also starred as Mose Schrute on The Office, was joined by a slew of big-name actors including Allison Janney, Timothy Olyphant, Josh Gad, Sean Astin, Charlie Barnett, Joey King, Chloe Fineman, Susan Sarandon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Patton Oswalt, Marg Helgenberger, Jake McDorman, Constance Zimmer, Michelle Hurd and Jason Sudeikis across picket lines in LA and New York.

Skye P. Marshall, who is a lead on CBS’ upcoming reboot of Matlock alongside Kathy Bates, told Deadline that the actors’ craft needs to be respected. “I was an extra for five and a half years so I know what it’s like to start at the bottom and grind and hustle,” she said. “We can’t be digitally duplicated, we have to be authenticated through our art and they need to respect that.”WHY I’M STRIKING: “Our craft needs to be respected.

We cannot be digitally duplicated, we have to be authenticated through our art…” — Skye P. Marshall, standing in solidarity with Edwin Hodge, both SAG-AFTRA, outside Paramount in L.A. #ActorsStrike pic.twitter.com/nQ8hi5Rv3L Olyphant, whose Justified: City Primeval launches on FX next week, told Deadline, “All I know is I’m sad I’m here but I’m happy I’m here, it’s the right thing to do and I hope we get everything we’re asking for like we should.” Gad, who voices Olaf in Disney’s Frozen and starred in Beauty and The Beast, said he’d rather be writing and acting right now but

Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Timothy Olyphant, Sean Astin, Allison Janney & Michelle Hurd Join Thousands Of Actors On First Day Of SAG-AFTRA Strike

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