Striking actors heartened by A-listers' support following Clooney summit
by Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times
Oct 19, 2023
4 minutes
Amid few signs that leaders of SAG-AFTRA and the major studios are ready to resume bargaining, hundreds of striking actors picketed outside Walt Disney Studios and other locations around Los Angeles on Thursday in a show of support for the union's nearly 100-day walkout.
Underneath the entrance to the Disney lot in Burbank, strike captains greeted demonstrators and welcomed them to "Day 98" of the strike.
"We'll be out here as long as it takes," one strike captain said as car horns honked in solidarity on Alameda Avenue. "It's the anniversary no one wanted."
Throughout the morning, strike captains called out to "Bob" — as in Iger, chief executive of over streaming pay.
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