New Delhi. Hollywood actors announced last Thursday that they were all going on strike. He has joined the ongoing strike by the group of writers. This is the first such major shutdown in the industry in 63 years after the last talks failed. This strike will bring almost all film and TV production to a standstill. Now you too must have this question in your mind that why is this strike happening? So let us tell you about it in detail.
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The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) represents 160,000 actors, including A-list stars, who are striking due to low pay. They are facing financial crisis due to increase in streaming and corona. Also actors and writers are also looking for better salary and security in the fast changing environment. In such a situation, these people were on strike for the demand of increasing the salary of the members of the unit. Actors also jumped in their strike on Thursday.
“The SAG-AFTRA National Board voted unanimously to issue a strike order against the studios and streamers,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s chief negotiator. This strike starts from midnight of Thursday. In the first Hollywood ‘double strike’ since 1960, actors have now joined the strike since Friday morning along with writers.
Let us tell you that the writers have been a part of this strike since 11 weeks ago. They began the strike after their common demands for better wages and protection against the future use of AI in television and films were not met.
Hollywood stars were so united about this strike that as soon as the strike was announced, the actors of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ left the premiere midway and joined the strike.