Dramatically escalating a bitter labor battle that has already brought Hollywood to a virtual standstill, thousands of striking film and television actors took to the streets on Friday to fight for better pay and job protections in an industry that has been upended by the rise of streaming.
On picket lines outside more than a dozen studios and production facilities in Los Angeles and New York, including the Warner Bros., Disney and Sony lots as well as the headquarters of Netflix and Amazon Studios, actors held aloft signs and chanted in unison alongside Writers Guild of America members who walked off the job in May.
As temperatures rose throughout the morning in Los Angeles, so did the number of picketers from SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union.
