Turns out, the picket strains filled with WGA members aren’t precisely such a foul place to be, as protesters are getting handled to dwell music and tons of free grub … because of some fairly massive names.
Friday marks the 4th day for the reason that union voted to droop all work, with members — and even pre-WGA of us — hanging outdoors Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Netflix, and different main studios.
Pete Davidson simply dropped off pizza from Spumoni Gardens for hanging Writer’s Guild members in Greenpoint pic.twitter.com/RjO5HgIje8
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One of the various celebs displaying their help was ‘SNL’ alum Pete Davidson … who pulled as much as a strike in New York with containers of pizza — a candy important for these marching for hours on finish.
On the West Coast, peeps hanging outdoors Paramount and Netflix have been greeted by a waffle meals truck — courtesy of the ‘Late-Night’ gang … AKA Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver. Best half? The meals was free!
Turns out, Kimmel’s assistant put within the name on behalf of his speak present brothers, ordering meals for 600 individuals … the truck proprietor says he even gave them a reduction to hire it out!
Netflix even had a dwell mariachi band out entrance, too … fairly rad!
Writer, actress, and producer Mindy Kaling was additionally on the Paramount lot, becoming a member of these asking execs to offer a good, dwelling wage to the 1000’s that consider they have been cheated within the period of streaming and AI.
You’ll recall, the final strike in 2007-2008 lasted 100 days earlier than an settlement was met, so this might final some time … but it surely appears to be like just like the writers don’t have any motive to decelerate — particularly with all this help!
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