Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Striking NYC Actors On Stress, Hope, Fran Drescher & Yoga
deadline.comThis is Day 116 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. SAG-AFTRA picket lines in New York City on Monday doubled as vigils, with striking actors waiting for their union’s leaders to weigh in on the “last, best, and final offer” package that the studios and streamers delivered Saturday. “We were handed 500 pages,” SAG-AFTRA strike captain Sue Berch said Monday in her traditional stemwinder of a closing speech for morning pickets outside Netflix and Warner Bros.
Discovery offices in Manhattan. “So [negotiators] are going through it to make sure they keep track of everything that’s in there.
Trust them.” “‘Last, best, and final,’ my ass!” one picketer shouted, prompting whoops and cheers. Berch agreed, saying, “It isn’t final ’til we say it’s final.” Zachary Quinto, F.
Murray Abraham, Jill Hennessy, Erika Longo, Lori Hammel, Mike Doyle, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Nick Sakai and Michael Cyril Creighton were among the actors spotted on the line Monday outside Netflix and Warner Bros.
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