As the strike extends into its second month, protesters are focusing efforts on stopping in-progress productions: 'We have to make sure that no writing is happening across the board.'
Earlier in May, writers picketed the on-location L.A. shoot of writer-director Aziz Ansari’s Lionsgate filmfor about two and a half days, until production was suspended indefinitely on May 19. Picketer Kyra Jones says these actions “hit [employers] in the pockets harder than anything else that we’re doing. And so hopefully that will get them to get us back on track and get us back working.
Picketing shifts often begin, end or persist overnight to ensure that their lines won’t be crossed. To counter these efforts, some productions have circulated call sheets featuring incorrect call times and, in the case of, have bused crewmembers to set, potentially to ease their way across the picket lines and allow them some anonymity.
Key grip and stunt rigger Wade Cordts is the administrator of a Facebook group that has become a conduit for crewmember-sourced production information to WGA picketers. He believes brimming anger across the industry has created a unique moment of solidarity. “Right now, everybody’s ‘below the line,’ ” Cordts, a member of both SAG-AFTRA and IATSE, observes. “It’s these megacorporations that are trying to break labor.
Regardless, labor experts observe that, for the writers and their guild, the shutdowns are more broadly about flexing their muscles, cultivating their alliances and lifting their spirits.
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