Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Actors In NYC Hopeful For Deal But Managing Expectations – “It’s A Fine Line”
deadline.comThis is Day 112 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Striking actors in New York City hit the picket lines in extra layering Thursday with the weather turning colder and their union’s strike against studios and streamers extending into its fifth calendar month.
Amid reports of progress in the talks out west between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, picketers spotted Thursday outside AMPTP member company offices in Manhattan included Annabella Sciorra, Terry Kinney, Kelly AuCoin, Glenn Fleshler, Stephen Kunken, Carrie Gibson, Michael Cyril Creighton, Frank C.
Williams and Stephanie D’Abruzzo. Actors said that they are doing their best to balance hopes for a settlement — which have been dashed before — with managed expectations while most continue to go without paying work. “It’s a fine line,” Gibson, a SAG-AFTRA strike captain who had a recurring role on Max’s Barry, told Deadline at a picket outside NBCUniversal headquarters at Rockefeller Center.
Gibson was preparing to head to Los Angeles next for a job on a production covered by the SAG-AFTRA interim agreement. She said the challenge for strikers is “staying strong and confident and present, and not buying into the idea that it’s going to end at any minute.” “We’ve been out here this long; this is not the time to take a bad deal,” actor Errik Tustenuggee said outside NBCUniversal, seconding the message of the letter that high-profile SAG-AFTRA members sent last week to the union’s negotiating committee.
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