After talks between studios and the Writers Guild went nowhere last week, concerns are growing about how long Hollywood's writers can keep up their fight.
Jimmy Clabots, 42, who recently joined the Writers Guild of America after getting hired to write a feature film he has yet to get paid for, is falling back on multiple side hustles — including working as a male escort.
The three Los Angeles-area residents are emblematic of many of the Hollywood writers who’ve been picketing on both coasts since the Writers Guildafter not reaching an agreement with studios. For all the Hollywood success stories — writers who get big feature films made or develop popular TV shows — many more live a day-to-day struggle of writing on spec, selling pilots that never get made and taking meetings that go nowhere.
“It’s clear that this is a pivotal moment for this career’s viability,” Legere said. “But the sacrifices we writers are making are real.”After months during which no talks took place, Writers Guild leaders were invited to a meeting Friday with studio negotiators representing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Studios are under increased pressure to make a deal after Hollywood’s actors’ unions also walked out in mid-July.
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