The Screen Actors Guild issued a strike order after last-ditch talks with studios on their demands over dwindling pay and the threat posed by artificial intelligence ended without a deal.
"This is a moment of history, a moment of truth -- if we don't stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble," SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher told a press conference, following the union board's unanimous vote to strike.After the strike formally goes into effect at 0700 GMT Friday, actors will join writers on picket lines in the first Hollywood "double strike" since 1960.
Movie studios have already begun reshuffling their calendars, and if the strikes drag on, major film releases could be postponed too. "We know it's a critical time at this point in the industry and the issues that are involved need to be addressed -- there are difficult conversations," British actor Kenneth Branagh said on the red carpet just before the strike was announced.'Greedy entity'
Actors say their salaries have been slashed, and that payments they used to receive when successful shows or films they had starred in were rerun on television have disappeared, because streamers refused to disclose their audience figures. But Phil Lord -- the writer, director and producer behind hits such as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and "The Lego Movie" -- was among those in Hollywood pouring scorn on the studios' version of events.
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