Seems, the picket strains stuffed with WGA members aren’t precisely such a nasty 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 exterior Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Netflix, and different main studios.
Pete Davidson simply dropped off pizza from Spumoni Gardens for hanging Author’s Guild members in Greenpoint pic.twitter.com/RjO5HgIje8
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One of many many 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 exterior Paramount and Netflix had been greeted by a waffle meals truck — courtesy of the ‘Late-Evening’ gang … AKA Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver. Better part? The meals was free!
Seems, Kimmel’s assistant put within the name on behalf of his discuss present brothers, ordering meals for 600 individuals … the truck proprietor says he even gave them a reduction to lease it out!
Netflix even had a dwell mariachi band out entrance, too … fairly rad!
Author, actress, and producer Mindy Kaling was additionally on the Paramount lot, becoming a member of these asking execs to offer a good, residing wage to the 1000’s that imagine they have been cheated within the period of streaming and AI.
You will recall, the final strike in 2007-2008 lasted 100 days earlier than an settlement was met, so this might final some time … nevertheless it appears just like the writers don’t have any purpose to decelerate — particularly with all this help!
