Shonda Rhimes, CEO and founder of Shondaland, who is behind such hit series as Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, said the writers’ strike, for her, “wasn’t complicated at all. “I consider myself to be a writer, first and foremost.
So I was a writer on strike. And I was very aware that I [was] not on strike the way a lot of people [were] on strike,” she said. “You know, I don’t live in LA.
So I wasn’t on the picket lines every day. I wasn’t going to lose my job, or my house, or my car, or not be able to pay my kid’s school tuition.
But the strike was for those people, for the people who make much less as writers than I do, who are trying to get a living wage.
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