A strike captain reflects on the emotional highs and lows of five months on the picket lines.
Photograph by Mario Tama / GettyIt’s a Yom Kippur miracle! On Sunday night, after a draining five months on the picket lines, Hollywood writers reached a tentative deal with the studios. The fine print is still getting ironed out, and, once the guild’s leadership approves it, the agreement will be sent to the Writers Guild of America membership for a ratification vote. As of Monday, the W.G.A. is still officially on strike, though it is no longer holding pickets.
After Labor Day came and went, the mood in Hollywood shifted—among writers I know, weary fortitude turned into a kind of panic. How long was this going to last? The studios, faced with a pallid fall season, were feeling immense pressure as well. But the fight wasn’t fading; when Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher announced that they would bring back their talk shows, sans union writers, the pushback was so loud that both retreated into the hedges. Then, last Wednesday, the two sides met again.
“Then we were just edging this conclusion the whole week, so, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And every single day was: this might be the day the deal happens. This might be the day that the strike ends. It was five straight days of this exquisite torture. Yesterday, I even tweeted, I think around five-forty-five, like, There is no ‘by sundown on the fifth day’ fairy-tale rule that we have to abide by.
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