Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Matt Damon were among the stars who staged a walk-out from the London premiere of Oppenheimer to "write their picket signs" ahead of the Sag-Aftra strike announcement on Thursday evening.
The news is likely to affect upcoming award shows, premieres, events and film festivals around the world after the US actors union declared its first major members strike in more than 40 years.
The premiere of Christopher Nolan’s historical epic was brought forward by an hour ahead of a Sag-Aftra press conference in Los Angeles, which later declared the union had agreed to strike.
The anticipated announcement cast a shadow over the London film premiere at the Odeon Luxe, in Leicester Square, with the film’s major stars, including Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr, Sir Kenneth Branagh and Rami Malek leaving before the screening of the film.
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