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On Friday morning, hours into the first commercial actors strike in 23 years, George Clooney has become the latest A-lister to voice his support for the walkout.
In a statement provided to Deadline, Clooney said that “actors and writers in large numbers have lost their ability to make a living.” As actors and writers strike together for the first time since 1960, Clooney added, “This is an inflection point in our industry. For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors, that journey starts now.”
Wednesday marked a historic turning point for Hollywood’s labor battle. Throughout the week, anticipation loomed as more than 100,000 actors waited for confirmation that they’d be going on strike. “I see a strike in my crystal ball,” Jamie Lee Curtis wrote Wednesday on Instagram, in her final social media post promoting Disney’s upcoming Haunted Mansion. “The souls of ghosts of performers long past urging us in this modern moment to fight for our rights to exist as creators.”