Chuck actors join Writer’s Strike on the Picket Lines
The actors who play Chuck (Zachary Levi), Morgan (Joshua Gomez), and Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) joined the picket lines for the WGA strike when they aren’t filming. When asked about working on their shows while the writers stand outside, Gomez told
“We support the strike fully, but I still have to drive through, and as I drive through a picket line, they understand. They know who we are — at least on our lot, on the Warner Bros. lot — when me and Zach drive in.” Gomez noted that continuing to work while another union, the writers, are on strike “is in our contract. There’s a ‘no strike’ clause. We have to do this, but otherwise, if I’m not there, I’m out here with these guys [on the picket line].”
The article also talks with Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother, who comments that he is worried it because neither side seems willing to even talk to the other. He also says how surreal it is that a strike has become a celebrity and tabloid event. It seems that there are very few people out there who don’t at least know that the strike is happening, updates are on local news and nearly any website you might surf past (which is ironic considering that the internet is one of the big points of contention).
Seth Green, of Robot Chicken and Family Guy, sums up the writer’s demands quite nicely:
“It’s stupid, because as they make money all the writers are saying is ‘We want a percentage of the money that you make.’ They’re not saying ‘We want an annual salary or a monthly income.’ They’re saying ‘As you make money, we want a percentage of it - of the income generated by the material that we created.’ That seems fair, doesn’t it?’”
Everyone seems to be expecting the strike to last a very long time, which I think is very unfortunate. While it might be true that it will take a monetary impact for the producers to sit down, I would hope that more people were saying “We want to get back to our desks, and we’ll do what it takes to make that happen.” But despite the amount of press and discussion, there are no negotiations, no talks, nothing going on between the WGA and the producers. While I might understand that they need to take a stand for their own cause, they aren’t only affecting themselves. In the IGN article, Neil Patrick Harris points this out very succinctly:
“I feel the worst for our crew. Writers, they deserve the compensation and they deserve to have the points that they want, but it effects a lot of people who are living paycheck to paycheck in a really, really significant way. So it’s really tough for the focus pullers and the crafts service people. They don’t have anything to do after this, legitimately. All the reality crews are full. So they suffer a lot harder than we do.”
This post was Authored by Elizabeth, Our Resident Authority on all things Chuck
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