Striking Actors, Writers, Hotel Workers Make the Personal Political

Striking W Hollywood Hotel workers walk down Sunset Blvd. on their way to join the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket line outside Netflix's offices on July 21 in Los Angeles. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

When Disney CEO Bob Iger said in mid-July that writers and actors were “just not realistic” in what they hoped to achieve through their respective negotiations with Hollywood’s major studios, he practically teed himself up for a public roasting. He received it.

“We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger: I know, sir, that you look at things through a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are,” Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston said at a SAG-AFTRA rally in New York days after Iger’s comments.