the scotsman Brian Coxstar of the series ‘Succession’, has demonstrated with hundreds of other British actors in central London to support the strike by their American colleagues against the pay cuts and the artificial intelligence threat.
Imelda Staunton (The Crown, Harry Potter), Simon Pegg (Mission Impossible), Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter in the Marvel movies) and Jim Carter (Downton Abbey) also participated in the concentration in Leicester Square, the neighborhood of the capital with the most emblematic cinemas.
Carrying banners from the British Actors Guild Equity, they expressed their solidarity with their American union counterpart, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA).
More of 160,000 film and television actors Americans went on strike last weekjoining the movement started several weeks ago by the writers.
With this strike, unprecedented in Hollywood for more than 60 years, they seek to denounce the fall in wages in the streaming era and the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to their jobs.