Breaking Down the Actors' Strike

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jul 17, 2023

SAG-AFTRA is officially on strike. Over 160,000 actors have stopped working, joining the WGA on strike for the first time in decades. With us to break it all down and take calls from actors living here in New York is journalist Maureen Ryan, author of the new book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call For Change in Hollywood.

 

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