A labour disruption of historic proportions is perhaps the last thing the Canadian film and TV industry needed.
is perhaps the last thing the Canadian film and TV industry needed.
SAG-AFTRA, the union for American actors, first spoke in support of the WGA strike in April. But at midnight on July 14, the majority of the union’s 28,000 members voted in favour of strike action, citing similar concerns of AI misuse and miscalculated residuals. For Farrell, who is a member of both the WGA and its Canadian counterpart, the WGC, these labour disruptions have made professional life complicated.
“This doesn’t just affect us,” he said. “It’s everyone on a set. There are a lot of people in Canada who should be working right now and can’t. People who would normally be working on ‘Star Trek,’ or a CW series, or a Warner Brothers series. Those have all been shut down.” “We stand by them,” Noble said in a Friday morning media scrum. “It’s not an easy thing to go out on strike…these are important issues that they are fighting.Tony Nappo is a Canadian actor with numerous credits across stage, film and television. Before 2023, he says he was able to count on reliable work. Now, the phone’s stopped ringing – many of the productions with roles suited for him have been American.
Watson Rose, a Toronto-based actor and freelance script editor, says screen work started to dry up before the strike was officially called in April.
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