It’s Day 8 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 81 of the WGA strike.
12.07.2023 - 22:53 / deadline.com
Jessica Williams just earned her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of no-nonsense therapist Gaby in Apple TV’s Shrinking, and she spoke to Deadline about the monumental moment in her career while she was getting dressed to hit the picket line at Disney in support of the WGA writers strike.
“What was great about playing Gaby—sorry, I’m getting ready to go picket while talking to you at the same time,” Williams, a former Daily Show senior correspondent, told Deadline on Wednesday.
“What was great about Gaby was knowing how they wanted her to counterbalance Harrison [Ford’s] character [Dr. Paul Rhoades] and Jason [Segal’s] character [Jimmy Laird] while she also has her own life and her own stuff going on,” she continued. “So [to bring her to life], I just worked backward. I knew her beats in general but she was also someone who says what she thinks and wears her heart on her sleeve. Harrison, Jason and Christa Miller were great scene partners so I always felt supported, and that I had the freedom to be Gaby,” she added.
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At first thought, it could be intimidating for nearly any actor to play opposite Ford, a Hollywood legend with many decades of experience under his belt. While Williams admits she was nervous going in but reveals the Indiana Jones star quickly made her feel at ease.
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“Working with him was great. He was so supportive and he’s just a really good actor. Many times I would watch him work and there’s so much to learn by watching people like that,” Williams said. “But in my thoughts, I
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It’s official: Hollywood’s actors are joining writers on the picket lines.
It’s official: Hollywood’s actors are joining writers on the picket lines.
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher will be doing a tour of Hollywood picket lines tomorrow morning, after her rousing speech saying they were victimized by the AMPTP, which she called a “very greedy entity” and that the studios were on the wrong side of history.
be joining Hollywood writers on the picket line beginning Friday, July 14.Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which represent the majority of actors in film and television, and major Hollywood studios, who are being represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), fell through after the Wednesday, July 12 deadline of 11:59 p.m. Pacific time passed without resolution.Actors will join writers on the picket line starting Friday morning. This will mark the first time the actors and writers will be striking at the same time since 1960.Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director/chief negotiator, made the strike announcement at a Thursday press conference following a national board meeting to approve the work stoppage. Crabtree-Ireland said talks with the AMPTP left the union «with no choice» but to move forward with a strike.«It came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads.
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