Dispatches From WGA Picket Lines Day 2: ‘SNL’s Bowen Yang, Krista Vernoff, Michael Schur, Cynthia Nixon Among Those Marching To Support Writers Strike
deadline.comThe Writers Guild of America began its second day of strike action Wednesday, picketing several sites throughout Los Angeles beginning at 9 a.m.
as well as at Netflix headquarters in New York City. In L.A., protests were beginning to wrap as scheduled by around 1 p.m.; they will resume Thursday morning.
Check back as we update from the field. At Netflix headquarters in downtown Manhattan, Saturday Night Live cast star and staff writer Bowen Yang walked half-hidden behind a picket sign reading “Witty Sign TK,” tucked in among hundreds of demonstrators streaming past the East Coast corporate offices of both Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery on the second day of the WGA strike.
Yang, 32, is a member of both WGA and SAG-AFTRA, and was marching in the midst of a standoff with studios that he called “existential.” “Not only for writers in the industry,” Yang added, “but everybody.” “We have to redefine the way that compensation just works in general,” he said, “and that’s why you have other guilds negotiating with the Alliance and studios as well.
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