Thousands of stars, including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Christian Slater and Sandra Oh, tell SAG-AFTRA leadership, “We’d rather go on strike than get a bad deal.”

A group of high-profile actors have signed a public letter saying they would rather continue their strike than accept a bad deal.

Thousands of stars, including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Christian Slater, Sandra Oh, Daveed Diggs and Kal Penn, signed the letter addressed to the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee.

“In June, before we went on strike, a large group of members signed an open letter telling our leaders we would rather strike than get a bad deal. Even today, more than a hundred days after our strike, this is still the case. “No matter how hard it is, we would rather go on strike than make a bad deal,” the letter said.

“We didn’t quite come here to give in. We didn’t go without work and wages and hang around for months, giving up everything we fought for. We cannot and will not accept a treaty that ignores the vital and existential problems we all need to solve,” she added.

Other signatories include Carrie Anne Moss, Christine Baranski, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristin Chenoweth, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lizzy Caplan, Richard Schiff, Simon Pegg, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto, Titus Welliver, Simon Helberg and Rosanna Arquette, Pamela Adlon, Noah Wyle, Maya Hawke, Margaret Cho, Lena Dunham, Kim Raver, Joshua Jackson, Helen Hunt, David Harewood and Carrie Coon.

The move comes after a special group of actors including George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington, Tyler Perry, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Aniston, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Laura Dern, Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds , and Ariana DeBose made an offer to help end the strike.