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Famous actors including Succession's Brian Cox and Lord of the Rings' Andy Serkis have protested with British union Equity in Leicester Square in solidarity with striking US actors. Rob Delaney, Simon Pegg, Jim Carter, Hayley Atwell, Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton were among the famous faces who gathered in central London a week after the start of major industrial action by Equity's sister union in America, the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 [crowd noise]
00:12 What I am here to do is to stand in solidarity with those actors, the vast majority of actors,
00:17 because we have to put this in the context of the fact that less than 2% of actors are
00:22 able to make a living out of what they do.
00:24 So we have over 98% of people in this profession who are living paycheck to paycheck and having
00:30 to supplement their income by doing other jobs.
00:32 I'm in solidarity with them and residuals really matter to them and that's what's important.
00:39 It's about big corporations that want to profit from their workforces, they want to exploit
00:44 their workforces, there's creativity and their talents and they don't want to compensate
00:48 them fairly and they care more about their shareholders than they do about the people
00:53 that feed the industry and that we all stand in solidarity to say that that is not okay.
00:59 [crowd noise]

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