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Cast of “Grey’s”, More, Join their Writers in Solidarity Strike
November 8th, 2007 at 5:47 pm by Sarah Jean Snarker » Bookmark on del.icio.us » Digg It?
The main cast of hit show Grey’s Anatomy joined their writers at the picket lines today, in support of their cause for fair payment. Singular cast members from many other comedies and dramas have also joined in, in a Screen Actors’ Guild Solidarity picket. Shows and megahits, such as The Office, are on hold even sooner than recently predicted, due to top billed stars joining the lines, like Steve Carrell, a huge focus of his sitcom.
“Writers ‘are not being allowed to participate in the future of the business,’ said [Sally] Field [of Brothers and Sisters] (who won an Oscar in 1979 for the pro-union film Norma Rae).”
“My concern is not so much for myself really, because I’ll be alright, but I think how long this strike lasts is going to affect a lot of people that are living paycheck to paycheck [like hair stylists and basic odd-job hired-hands] - they are going to be damaged profoundly by this, and I think that’s a real tragedy,” the Grey’s Anatomy star [Patrick Dempsey] reflected. “I think a lot of people and a lot of families are going to be in a difficult place in their lives; hopefully we can come to some sort of understanding and resolve this soon enough that it doesn’t affect those people.”
BuddyTV.com reported, “Dempsey is not alone in his concern for lesser paid television crew and personnel who are at the bottom of the entertainment ladder. Scrubs creator and executive producer, Bill Lawrence, had the same fear for his people.
“Right now, I fear that a lot of the writers have no real clue just how tough this is going to be. I’d imagine things will get very grim sometime after Christmas,” Lawrence has said. “I’ve kind of won the lottery in having a few shows that went to syndication in both Scrubs and Spin City, so anything I say about my own sacrifice would drip with selfishness. This is such a bigger deal for the guys who work below the line and largely live hand-to-mouth and the younger writers who can’t go without a paycheck for very long.”
“You’ve got to have a story in order to perform anything, to have any ideas on where to go and what to do,” Katherine Heigl summed up. “They’re everything. We can’t do it without them.”
“How greedy can you get, they won’t even share the net!”
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