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Dispatches From WGA Picket Lines Day 9: Black Writers Hit Paramount With Robin Thede, Samira Wiley & Gaby Sidibe As John Leguizamo Joins NYC Picket Parade

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After yesterday’s Imagine Dragons party outside Netflix, it was Paramount’s turn to pop. Around 900 picketers flooded the streets near Melrose supporting the WGA West’s Committee of Black Writers.

These included stars such as Samira Wiley, Gabby Sidibe, Kendrick Sampson and Robin Thede. Precious star Sidibe told Deadline, “I am striking with the writers because if they don’t work, I can’t work”, while Orange Is The New Black star Wiley said she was on the picket line to support her writer wife, Lauren Morelli. “My house is a two union household,” she added.

Thede, creator and star of HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, warned the studios to “stop being cheap”. “I’m striking because paying writers a day rate is an abomination.

We are still professionals and we deserve to be paid that way,” she added.WHY I'M STRIKING: “Because paying writers a day wage is abomination.

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