WGA Strike: Zack Stentz Talks Those Critical First Days
05.05.2023 - 23:23
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Were you on the line [on Tuesday] at all? I was not because I was doing interviews all day. I was on this I was on the line [Wednesday morning]. What was the feeling among the participants? The vibe felt a lot like what it was the first few days of the 2007 strike, which is a big party atmosphere. It has that Comic-Con vibe where you’re finally seeing a colleague who you worked with ages ago or you only knew online, even if you lived just a few miles away. What happens when the excitement and participatory glow wears off? That’s when the ground organization matters.
If you are a strike Captain, you got to keep the troops fired up. That’s when it becomes important when enthusiasm starts dwindling as people realize that it’s that they’re in it for the long haul. At that point, they start wondering if they are going to make the rent or the mortgage payment or, if they are younger, if they are going to have to move back in with their parents.
Are there stories about how a writer just got their big break only to have that stymied by the strike? Back in 2007, I was in front of the Warner Brothers lot on the first day of the strike. The person who gave the most memorable speech was an up-and-coming sitcom writer who, after years in the trenches, just got his first show on the air. And he was wondering aloud if it was going to come back after the strike, was this the end of his career? He then admitted that yes, he was afraid of all those things, but he was out there anyway because it was that important.
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