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Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, US News, Netflix
Joe Harker
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, US News, Netflix
Hollywood writers are on strike and demanding fairer pay from their mega-studio employers, which has basically thrown a massive wrench into people's TV-watching habits.
Late-night shows were immediately shut down and the futures of other TV series have been thrown into doubt because without people to write them there's no show at all.
It's the first writer's strike for 15 years and when it happened last time it had far-reaching consequences for movies and TV.
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People's beloved shows suddenly took a noticeable dive in quality while the production of a number of movies was irrevocably damaged, leading to the final product being something well below what it could have been.
Writers on the picket line have been finding ways to have fun with the strike, and one of those ways has been to make jokes about Jenna Ortega's comments on working on the Wednesday script.
To refresh your memories, Wednesday lead star Ortega said she had to make changes to the popular Netflix show's script because some parts of it 'made no sense'.
She said she started changing lines of dialogue without conferring with the writers first, meaning she later had to explain to them why the scenes were turning out differently.
While some fans praised her for what she did behind the scenes on Wednesday, her comments also attracted a bit of a backlash from some writers for having 's**t on the showrunners/writer publicly'.
Other viewers said it might be a bit awkward if everyone got back together for a second season after Ortega said she didn't like parts of the original scripts much and publicly said she'd made changes.
Now writers on the picket lines have been joking about the whole thing, with Brandon Cohen, writer of Just Roll With It and House Party spotted holding aloft a banner which read: "Without writers, Jenna Ortega will have nothing to punch up!"
Other writers joked on social media that they expected to see Ortega joining the strikes in solidarity.
Bojack Horseman writer Nick Adams tweeted that the actor 'better be back from NY for her afternoon shift on the picket line'.
"Rewriting is writing! See you at the line, Jenna," was the message from Karen Joseph Adcock, writer of The Bear.
It would be quite fun if Ortega responded to the striking writers having a bit of a joke by actually showing up on the picket lines in Hollywood.