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With enough famous actors to populate an awards show all gathered on one stage, the labor union representing them in an “existential battle” against film and television studios held a star-studded strike rally in the middle of New York’s Times Square on Tuesday morning.
An audience of several hundred people including card-waving members of SAG-AFTRA squeezed into a barricaded pedestrian plaza on a humid day when at least one spectator required medical attention. At an event dubbed “Rock the City for a Fair Contract,” they heard almost two hours worth of speeches from union representatives and from high-profile acting peers including Bryan Cranston, Christine Baranski, Wendell Pierce, Christian Slater, Stephen Lang, Michelle Hurd, Jill Hennessy and Steve Buscemi.
Behind the speakers on the temporary stage stood several other actors representing generations of film and television work, among them Ellen Burstyn, Michael Shannon, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Williams, B.D. Wong, Chloe Grace Moretz, Lea DeLaria, S. Epatha Merkerson and Jane Curtin.
In sometimes-fiery, sometimes-personal remarks, speakers called for fairness, dignity and respect for their work from the executives at the companies that make up the striking actors and writers absent contract-negotiating partner: the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
One speaker asked for sanity: “Let us know when you come to your senses,” said Joely Fisher, SAG-AFTRA’s secretary-treasurer, addressing the AMPTP.
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Speakers bridled at having their demands labeled as “not realistic,” to quote Disney chief Bob
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