The Dune star and Attorney General Letitia James were among the thousands of striking actors and writers picketing outside Warner Bros. Discovery
, F. Murray Abraham, and John Leguizamo were joined by union representation from backstage entertainment crews, freight workers, local unions, and numerous other groups.
When Leguizamo took the stage, he called the turnout “a block party but for workers’ rights.” With streaming on the rise, the comedian and actor highlighted the actors union’s revenue-sharing proposal that could fix inadequate streaming residuals. “We all know the studios will figure it out and adapt, we don’t underestimate their ability to make money,” he says. “So, they better not underestimate our ability to make sure they pay the people who make them rich.”
As the Writers Guild of America passes four months on the picket lines – and the actors’ union has reached the two-month mark – some daytime talk shows, like, have decided to resume production without their unionized writers. And Bill Maher announced Wednesday that his HBO talk showis returning to the air sans writers because he’s supposedly “not prepared to lose an entire year and see so many below-the-line people suffer so much.
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