More Brothers & Sisters on the picket lines
The Writer’s Guild strike is in its sixth day now, with no amenable end in sight. Brothers & Sisters creative types have been in the forefront of the strike news. Here’s a round-up of some of the action.
Jon Robin Baitz continues to talk about the strike on his Huffington Post blog, articulating the writer’s cause and providing a fairly adorable anecdote about Ron Rifkin explaining to a French reporter, “in perfect French, that he is here ‘because without the word, what is there?…There is nothing…’ It is capped by a perfect Gallic shrug, as good as any Parisian who knows the truth is the truth is the truth.”
Baitz also made news by writing a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger imploring the former actor to intervene in a strike that stands to lose the state hundreds of millions of dollars. He even mentions the set visit the governor made to the Brothers & Sisters set a while ago.
Sally Field was among the actors expressing support for the writers. She told CBS News what might happen if the show had to go on without the scribes: “It’ll be all the actors just going — ‘That doesn’t work. You say that and then I’ll say this’ — and lord knows what’s going to turn out.”
Watching With Kristin on the E! site describes Field on the picket line “encouraging her Brothers & Sisters boys Matthew Rhys, Dave Annable and Balthazar Getty to join her in talking to the press about the issues at hand. (BTW, she couldn’t have been more Nora Walker to her onscreen sons in that moment, and it couldn’t have been more awesome for us die-hard B&S fans to see.)” There’s a cute photo of Field, Rhys, Annable, and former show-runner Greg Berlanti to go with it.
Also in the E! item is word that Rachel Griffiths brought coffee and sunscreen to the walking writers, and that the show will have 12 episodes done when production halts, assuming no agreement is reached by then. That means, with Episode 6 last week and Episode 7 coming on Sunday, we’re about halfway to doomsday.
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, writer’s strike, Jon Robin Baitz, Ron Rifkin
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