A day of picketing the set of the Starz/Lionsgate series BMF in Atlanta turned dangerous for WGA writers Brian Egeston and Gabriel Alejandro Garza. Egeston claimed in a series of tweets Thursday af…
, and Garza , said that they were peacefully protesting and that Woolf’s explanation for his behavior was that he “tried to scare us.”TV writer Tom Smuts, who is married to WGA West president Meredith Stiehm, in a Twitter post early Friday, provided an eyewitness account of the events that transpired after Woolf “used his SUV to threaten and intimidate Brian Egeston and fellow WGA member Gabe Garza.
When Woolf was unable to convince the Teamsters to cross the picket lines, he attempted to do the work himself at a parking lot located on Hank Aaron Drive. As per Smuts, Woolf was “opening trailers, turning on generators, driving picture cars to set, etc.” “We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly,” the company said in a statement to Deadline. “As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved.”
“Workers should not be threatened with physical harm when exercising their right to publicly protest and picket against unfair wages and working conditions. Anyone who harms or threatens to harm a member or supporter of the Writers Guild on a picket line should be held responsible for their actions,” the statement from the Guild reads.
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