With the Screen Actors Guild on strike, joining in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, celebrities are hitting the picket lines to fight for a better contract from the studios.
"I remember calling my parents and telling them I was going to receive health care—as an actor. Joining SAG instantly legitimized my improbable fantasy of working as an actor and turned it into an actual job," Garner says in the caption, reflecting on earning her SAG card in 1995.
"I am walking as one of the lucky ones and every day I’m grateful. It will take all of us working together on both sides to evolve our industry, to set future generations of artists up for sustainable careers, and to get ourselves and our beloved colleagues back to work.""Grace & Frankie" co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin join fellow SAG-AFTRA members on the picket line in front of Netflix headquarters in Hollywood.
“SAG is an excellent union but in the U.S. we don’t have a national health service so what is important to SAG actors is health and they need that,” Cox said. “That’s why they need their residuals.”Jason SudeikisPhoto: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock "Bull Durham" star and political activist Susan Sarandon pickets outside the Warner Bros Discovery offices in New York.Mandy Moore joins SAG-AFTRA and WGA members on the picket line outside The Walt Disney Co. studios in Burbank.Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick on the picket line in New York.Dermot Mulroney joins striking actors and writers outside Netflix's offices in Los Angeles.
Gina Torres took to Instagram to share some snaps of herself joining protesters in New York."Not gonna lie. It was an emotional day yesterday," she wrote."Seeing faces I grew up with, #icons and colleagues who have inspired me my entire life and career. Old friends, new friends, young actors just starting out, young families with babies, all marching together for each other for the ability to make a creative AND decent/good/great living.
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