News from the picket lines: Zachary Quinto calls studios ‘dismissive and disrespectful to us’; Sarah Paulsen and Jessica Lange also join the SAG-AFTRA Strikers in NYC

It is day 96 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange joined a SAG-AFTRA protest in New York City on Tuesday as members of their union paid tribute to strike leaders who have picked various locations over the past 96 days, including this week. Manhattan. since talks between famous actors and the studios failed.

Another union team attended the morning meeting outside NBCUniversal’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters: members and staff of Broadway’s Theatrical Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

“What you’re fighting for — fair wages, participation in success and responsibility for your work — are all things that SDC members understand,” Laura Penn, the union’s executive director, told Picketers.

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The 3,275-member SDC is in contract negotiations with the Broadway League, the industry association that represents theater owners and producers, and has not yet authorized a strike.

“It’s a tough environment to do a deal in,” Penn previously told Deadline, referring to Broadway’s post-COVID box office woes.

However, she attributed an increase in union activism nationally, including SAG-AFTRA, to SDC members being persuaded to negotiate. “The activation of the labor movement in this country is absolutely present in our confidence,” Penn said, “and it has also strengthened the determination of our members to articulate our needs and bring them to the table.”

SAG-AFTRA’s strike captains – who set up and break down strikes every day and keep protesters moving and informed – were praised by New York union president Ezra Knight as the backbone of their effort to win. favorable offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

“We feel that you are in the bargaining room,” Knight said, acknowledging the turn of events that dampened hopes for a quick settlement after the Writers Guild strike was resolved.

“We’re on a journey,” Knight said. “It’s a hard, tough, difficult journey, but we will get through it.”

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Dann Fink, a director and actor in New York, said studio and streaming executives last week stopped negotiating with SAG-AFTRA over “cents” — specifically a union proposal, a fee of 57 cents per subscriber fee to be collected by streamers every day of the year to help compensate union members.

“I can’t even send a letter about that amount,” Fink, who is a member of SAG-AFTRA and SDC, told picketers. “And they called it a bridge too far.”

Quinto spoke to Deadline about “all the people across the industry who are affected by this shutdown.”

“The directors, the production designers, the caterers – there are so many people affected by this work stoppage, and the AMPTP can solve it quickly and easily if they just look beyond their own interests and realize that we are all in this.” is busy with it. “We want to bring this industry together,” he said in an interview. “We all do our part and we must be compensated.

“And in fact the position they are taking is both dismissive and disrespectful towards us,” the spokesperson said Star Trek actors and American Horror Story Added Emmy nomination. “We are not asking them to give up more than we deserve. And it’s almost nothing for them, almost nothing financially in terms of their self-interest.”

Manufacturing managers are “driven by greed and lust for power, which is an old paradigm,” Quinto said. “And all those who are standing in solidarity, all the people from other unions who are standing up now to support SAG-AFTRA, they represent the new paradigm and a paradigm that we will move toward one way or another.”