Photo:Kim Raver/Instagram
Kim Raver/Instagram
TheGrey’s Anatomycast members reunited on the picket lines.
ActressKim Raver, who plays Dr. Teddy Altman on the drama, shared highlights on Instagram from a SAG/AFTRA picketing session on Friday which also included several other cast members from the ABC show, includingChandra Wilson,James Pickens Jr.and others.
In theshort videoset toTaylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” Raver showed herself holding a picket sign as she walked the streets alongside fellowGrey’s stars Wilson andJaicy Elliot. She also shared a bunch of group photos posing alongside Wilson, Pickens Jr., Elliot, along withHarry Shum Jr.,Caterina ScorsoneandNiko Tehro.
The video featured Wilson and Pickens Jr. making speeches in front of a SAG/AFTRA tent to the other actors on the picket line, arousing applause from the crowd. In addition,Station 19actor and SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee memberJason Georgespoke to the attendees and posed with the group for photos.
“Proud to stand in solidarity on the picket line today with many of our Grey’s cast/crew family and fellow#SAGAFTRAUnion members today in front of Warner Brothers! A special shout out to@jasonwinstongeorge, thank you!! 💪💪💪,” she captioned the video.
“The business model has changed,”Pickens Jr. said at the event, per the outlet. “We have to be a part of that change. It’s about equity, it’s about what is fair. We are not going to stop here. We are going to continue until they listen [to] us. Without us there would be no Warner Bros., there would be no Disney.”
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George, whonoted during his speechthat “first responders shows are the absolute back of this industry,” asked actors to “stay strong,, to keep on the lines, to tell everyone you know to show up because this keeps the pressure on. That’s what it’s about.”
SAG-AFTRA — the union that comprises the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — announced in July thatit initiated a strikeafter failed contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Grey’s Anatomy cast members uniting on the SAG/AFTRA picket line.Kim Raver/Instagram
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Ahead of the strike, members of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) had been seeking pay and residual increases, higher caps on pension and health contributions and regulating the use of artificial intelligence, among other things.
source: people.com
