Actors' Threats Don't Scare Studios

The Screen Actors Guild’s contract has expired, but Hollywood remains strangely sublime, Variety reports. This isn’t like the writers strike, conventional wisdom has it, because actors don’t support a strike the way the writers did. “People who are working don't want to go out,” said one agent. After the WGA strike “there are too many people who are just desperate to get something going.”

This time, uncertainty is affecting film more than TV. The last strike shut TV down almost immediately, but many shows are soldiering on amid the turmoil. One sitcom writer says it “is not even in my thought process … there’s just a general feeling that it’s not going to happen.” Studio movies, by contrast, have largely stopped shooting just in case. (More Screen Actors Guild stories.)