Writers' Strike & The A-List
posted by Trish Bennett 6:02 PM
Johnny Depp is included in an article from the Los Angeles Times about response to the WGA writers' strike from A-list celebrities.
Other than a momentary appearance by Ben Stiller, not a single top-tier movie star -- including some rather high-profile WGA hybrids -- has found it prudent to say or do anything publicly to support the writers' cause.
Yes, such TV and film actors as Laura Linney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Josh Brolin have shown up on the line or in WGA-supportive United Hollywood videos.
But where's Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Will Smith and Reese Witherspoon? They've remained deafeningly neutral, as if they were thinking that if they just stayed still and quiet enough, they could wait everybody out and avoid any partisanship.
"They don't want to be branded hypocrites," muses one manager-producer. "Because they're working on movies that are [in production]. Even if there are no writers working on those movies, it's like they're still kind of crossing picket lines to work on them. . . . I think their publicists, smartly, are telling them to not take a side. Do you really gain much by taking a side?"
5 Comments:
I hate to say this ,but its probably smart to stay quiet. All these actors can afford to not work for a while ,but most of the reg joes who work on the movies with them cannot.On one hand they probably support the strike ,on the other hand if they don't show up for work a lot of people lose their jobs. :(
I have to agree with the first comment. It is not as if I am anti-union, but there is nothing wrong with staying silent on a controversial issue. Besides, when has Johnny ever been out-spoken-- politically or otherwise? He keeps his own counsel, so why should this be an exception? It would be different if he were the typical "Hollywood" actor who was always weighing in on issues. I think even Johnny would agree that he is anything BUT typical, and CERTAINLY can't be defined as a "Hollywood" type. I think the author of the article was out of line to suggest any of those actors should or should not take a stand. It's a personal choice.
~Barby
Ahh the politics at work, really I think we all have had enough, does any one watch that many movies, or watch that much television? I think we are all just trying to make a living and live in the real world, to really care, about going under or over the lines of a writers strike or what stars do or don;t, I think the smart ones are the silent ones. When all the smoke blows over it all comes down to the BIG DOLLAR SIGN.
It is smart to stay quiet. If he publicly agrees with the writers and stops work on a movie, he is putting other sectors of the movie industry out of work.
ALTHOUGH THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO W/ THE WRITERS STRIKE, IT APPARENTLY DID WHEN IT CAME TO THE SNOBBY AND APPARENTLY PREDICTABLE "NYCC" AWARD SHOW!!! HOW NICE TO READ IN THE USA TODAY, ON MONDAY, WHAT VH1 TOOK SO MUCH TIME TO TELEVISE MONDAY EVENING!!! THANKS, YOU PIECE OF CRAP PAPER!!! DIDN'T SEE JOHNNY THERE OR THE CREW FOR SWEENY TODD!!! THEY WERE, UP FOR SEVERAL AWARDS, AND GOT NOTHING!! HOW PREDICTABLE!! I THINK CAST AND CREW SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!! FOR GOD'S SAKE, THE RAT PACK OF OCEANS BORDEDEM, WAS THERE, (RIGHT ALONG W/ BRANGELINA)! MY GOD THE MONOTONISM!!! IF THIS IS A PRERECRIUM, FOR THE OSCAR'S OR GGA'S, WHAT'S THE POINT OF WASTING MY TIME WATCHING THEM!!! I'LL WATCH POTC 1,2,3, THAT NIGHT!!! YOU KNOW, THE ONES, THE CRITICS, (REGARDING THE LAST 2 MOVIES THEY SCATHING LASHED OUT AT, YET, THEY BREATHED LIFE INTO A VERY S-L-O-W AND LIFELESS BOX0FFICE!!!) THE CRITICS DON'T KNOW ANYTHING AND DON'T REFLECT, WHAT MOST OF THE NATION WANTS TO PAY MONEY FOR!!!
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