Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer cast was prepared for the SAG-AFTRA strike to be called. Shortly after the carpet at the film's London premiere wrapped and the screening was set to begin, the entire cast left as the strike was officially announced.
. “We have to acknowledge, you’ve seen them here earlier on the red carpet. Unfortunately, they’re off to write their picket signs for what we believe to be an imminent strike by SAG, joining one of my guilds, the writer’s guild, in the struggle for fair wages for working members of their union. We support them.”“We talked about it. Look, if it’s called now, everyone’s going to walk obviously in solidarity … Once the strike is officially called, [we’re walking].
He added: “It’s really about working actors. It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and residual payments are getting them across that threshold. This isn’t an academic exercise. This is real life and death stuff. Hopefully we get to a resolution quickly. No one wants a work stoppage, but we’ve got to get a fair deal.”
Blunt echoed the point, stating: “Obviously we stand we all of the actors and at whatever point it’s called, we’re going to be going home and standing together through it because I want everyone to get a fair deal.” The SAG-AFTRA strike arrives after four weeks of negotiations in which the 160,000-member Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists did not reach a new deal with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers , which represents the movie studios and streaming services.
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