Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Michael Chiklis Calls For “Grown-ups To Get Back To The Table & Make A Deal”; Dylan McDermott & Dermot Mulroney Confusion; ‘Jury Duty’ Cast Renders Verdict On Strike
deadline.comIt’s Day 7 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 80 of the WGA strike. With temperatures reaching 90 degrees in Century City on Thursday afternoon, Michael Chiklis, Cobra Kai co-creator Josh Heald, Dylan McDermott, Dermot Mulroney and his sister-in-law Michele Mulroney, VP of WGA West, led the picket lines at Fox Studios.
Chiklis, a SAG-AFTRA member since 1988, told Deadline he’s walking the pickets to “support my brethren in a really righteous fight for fair and equitable wages for what we do.” The Emmy winner most recognized for his role as Vic Mackey in The Shield is asking for cool heads to reunite at the negotiating table to hammer out a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Additionally, he hopes the strike marks a turning point for the industry to be honest about the struggles it faces. “In fairness, I’ve been trying to put this out there that where we’re culpable as a union and as communicators is that we’ve done a not-so-good job of making people understand what it takes to make film and television shows,” he said. “We tend to focus on the glamorous and glorifying what we do and we’re storytellers, but we’re also quietly terrified to let anybody see that we’re vulnerable because everybody wants to seem very successful.
So we’ve painted this picture and this perception that we’re a bunch of spoiled brats that make an inordinate amount of money that really don’t have a leg to stand on and that is wrong and categorically false.” He continued, “The rank and file of this industry by and large work 85-plus-hour weeks.
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