After talks between the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down on Wednesday, members of the actors guild today authorized a strike that will begin at midnight.

Striking actors will join their counterparts in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in pushing back against film and TV studios over a number of issues—including the potential use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the creative process.

Hollywood is now bracing for a shutdown of the likes that hasn’t been seen since actors walked off the set in 1980.

​​“The eyes of the world, and particularly the eyes of labor, are upon us,” actress Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA, said at a Thursday news conference, according to The New York Times.

“What happens to us is important,” she continued. “What’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor. When employers make Wall Street and greed their priority, and they forget about the essential contributors who make the machine run, we have a problem.”

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