Actors unionized with SAG-AFTRA are officially on strike as of today. Some 160,000 Screen Actors Guild members are joining around 11,000 film and television writers who have been on the picket line since May, effectively bringing Hollywood to a standstill. The strike prohibits members from both acting in and promoting films and TV shows. Actors are demanding better wages, residual pay and protections in an era where streaming services dominate and AI threatens the livelihood of entertainers. This is SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.

Fran Drescher: “It is a slippery slope into a very dangerous time and a real dystopia, if big business corporations think that they can put human beings out of work and replace them with artificial intelligence. It’s dangerous, and it’s without thinking or conscience.”

We’ll have more on the strike by Hollywood actors and writers later in the broadcast.