For the second day in a row, scribes showed up at a New York work site for Showtime’s Billions
. The on-the-nose symbolism of the choice was not lost on about 200 marchers on Friday — striking WGA members and their supporters from other unions including SAG-AFTRA and IATSE – as was evident from their chants.Picket signs bobbing above the marchers’ heads were hand-lettered with messages including “I see rich people,” and, in a nod to another hit show about billionaires, Where Thursday’s protest in Brooklyn turned tense at several moments, the mood on Friday in Manhattan was more festive.
Protestors marched on one side of the street, across from a line-production trucks parked in front of a mammoth commercial building that stretches the length of the block. police officers, quietly watched the protest from their side of the street.
“I believe under the NLRA [National Labor Relations Act], we are allowed to honor picket lines,” he said, “but there’s a little bit of stickiness with that.
“I’m here really just for the next generation of writers who are systematically being shut out of all the ways that I had to make a living when I broke in 25 years ago,” he said. As for writers and sets, he said, “I’ve had a lot of writers who’ve been on three or four shows and then I’d say, ‘And what’s your experience been on set?’ And they would get this blank look and they’d say, ‘I’ve actually never been on set.’ And to me that’s like someone who’s been writing recipes but has never been in the kitchen. You don’t know how to cook yet. Until an actor comes to you and says, ‘I don’t understand why I’m saying this,’ you’re not really a TV writer.
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