Turns out, the picket strains filled with WGA members aren’t precisely such a nasty place to be, as protesters are getting handled to stay music and tons of free grub … due to some fairly large names.
Friday marks the 4th day because the union voted to droop all work, with members — and even pre-WGA of us — placing outdoors Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Netflix, and different main studios.
Pete Davidson simply dropped off pizza from Spumoni Gardens for placing Writer’s Guild members in Greenpoint pic.twitter.com/RjO5HgIje8
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One of the various celebs exhibiting their assist was ‘SNL’ alum Pete Davidson … who pulled as much as a strike in New York with bins of pizza — a candy important for these marching for hours on finish.
On the West Coast, peeps placing 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 lease it out!
Netflix even had a stay 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 present a good, dwelling wage to the hundreds 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 seems to be just like the writers haven’t any purpose to decelerate — particularly with all this assist!