{"id":1979510,"date":"2023-07-21T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christopher-nolan-says-strike-is-about-working-writers-and-working-actors\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:22:24","slug":"christopher-nolan-says-strike-is-about-working-writers-and-working-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christopher-nolan-says-strike-is-about-working-writers-and-working-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan: Strike is for writers and actors."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristopher-nolan-says-strike-is-about-working-writers-and-working-actors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Director Christopher\u2063 Nolan Addresses \u2063Cast Walkout at Oppenheimer Premiere<\/h2>\n<p>Director\u200b Christopher Nolan \u200bhas responded to the recent walkout by the cast of his \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-overwhelmingly-silent-on-scott-rudin-abuse-allegations\/\" title=\"Hollywood Overwhelmingly Silent On Scott Rudin Abuse Allegations\">latest film<\/a>, Oppenheimer, during its London premiere. Despite the \u200ccontroversy, Nolan emphasized that the strike is not about himself or the cast,\u2062 but rather about the larger \u2062issue at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan \u2062made an appearance on\u200c a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christopher-nolan-says-strike-is-about-working-writers-and-working-actors\/\" title=\"Nolan: Strike is for writers and actors.\">pre-recorded episode<\/a> of The View, which aired on Friday to promote the release of Oppenheimer. While participating in any publicity\u2064 for projects within the Alliance of Motion\u2064 Picture and \u2064Television Producers\u2064 would violate the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strike, Nolan clarified that as a member of the \u200bWriter&#8217;s Guild of America, he is not bound\u2062 by this rule. The Writer&#8217;s Guild \u2064of America is\u2064 currently in \u200cits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-states-that-kept-kids-out-of-schools-destroyed-some-kids-futures-impact-will-last-years\/\" title=\"DeSantis: States That Kept Kids Out Of Schools Destroyed Some Kid\u2019s Futures, Impact Will Last \u2018Years\u2019\">80th day<\/a> of strike.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Was the Real J.\u2063 Robert Oppenheimer?<\/h3>\n<p>However, the cast of Oppenheimer, including Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Olli\u200c Haaskivi, Robert Downey Jr., and more, walked\u200b out as soon as news of the SAG-AFTRA strike \u200cbroke. Nolan described the moment as &#8220;bittersweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were all \u200cthere together, sharing that moment on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-preemptively-resigns-from-the-screen-actors-guild\/\" title=\"President Trump preemptively resigns from the Screen Actors Guild\">red carpet<\/a>, but knowing that the actors\u200c would have to down tools and go on \u2063strike,&#8221; Nolan expressed. &#8220;This action \u2063is necessary. We fully support the working writers \u200cand actors. It&#8217;s not about the individual actors or myself. It&#8217;s about the struggle of working writers and actors to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">make ends meet<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The AMPTP\u2062 (Alliance of Motion \u200bPicture and Television \u200dProducers) failed to reach agreements with \u200bboth SAG-AFTRA and WGA, but managed to strike a deal with the Directors \u200bGuild of\u200b America without much attention. Major studios such as Amazon\/MGM, Apple, NBCUniversal, Disney\/ABC\/Fox, Netflix, Paramount\/CBS, Sony, Lionsgate,\u2062 and Warner Bros are all represented by \u2063the\u2064 AMPTP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more\u200d from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The companies we\u2064 work for have unilaterally changed their business models in \u200brecent years, and the deals have not\u200d been adjusted accordingly,&#8221; \u2063Nolan continued. &#8220;This is one \u2062of those rare moments that arise every few \u200ddecades where action must be \u200ctaken. \u2063Hopefully, a \u200dswift resolution can be reached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This\u200d marks\u200d the first SAG-AFTRA strike in 43 years and the first time in 63 years\u2062 that both \u2064WGA and SAG-AFTRA are simultaneously on strike. Notably, Ronald Reagan, before his presidential run, was leading SAG-AFTRA during the \u2062previous joint \u2063strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Christopher Nolan dismissed the cast&#8217;s departure from the London premiere of his new film, stating that the strike was not personal. He made an appearance on a pre-recorded episode of The View, aired on Friday, to promote his movie Oppenheimer, which coincidentally premiered on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}