It begins. After a humdinger of a speech by SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, Hollywood actors, who’re combating for elevated wages and protections in opposition to synthetic intelligence, formally went on strike Friday. Josh Gad, Ginnifer Goodwin, Constance Zimmer, Jason Sudeikis, Allison Janney, and Mandy Moore had been among the many stars noticed on picket strains in New York and Los Angeles, becoming a member of the writers who’ve already been placing for a number of months as a result of related issues about the way forward for their occupation. George Clooney additionally weighed in with an announcement in assist of the strike. “That is an inflection level in our trade,” he stated, per The Hollywood Reporter. “For our trade to outlive that has to vary. For actors, that journey begins now.” Quite a few movie and TV productions have already halted filming, together with Marvel’s “Deadpool 3,” and with actors not permitted to advertise their tasks, the “Barbie” press tour simply had essentially the most abrupt ending since “Throughout the Spider-Verse.”