This is Day 115 of theWGAstrike and Day 42 of theSAG-AFTRAstrike.
The SAG-AFTRA strike is in its seventh week.
It almost fell apart at the end, Gilroy said.
Tony Gilroy, Corey Stoll and Stephen Lang on the NYC picket lineSean Piccoli; Getty
Friendships were broken forever.
People really did lose their houses.
And that sacrifice was to win all this shit that we take for granted.
The Writers Guild today is older and wiser in many ways, he said.
But its younger and more passionate and its more connected and its faster on its feet.
We are the content.
It is our ideas.
Its our ideas that fill the theme parks and the toy stores.
Its our characters on the lunchboxes and the Halloween costumes.
He added: We have one problem, and thats that the AMPTP does not have their shit together.
They do not know what the f*ck they are doing.
We are facing across the table now a group of people who have never done this before.
Theyre doing this for the first time, and they have almost nothing in common but greed.
They hate each other, but theyve got to come together and do this, he said.
Like Willimon, he finished with, One way out.
Its hard to believe they would call a meeting like that thinking it would go well, Mittenthal said.
