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How Is 'House of the Dragon' Still Shooting During the Strikes? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Well production of just about every scripted movie and TV
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  Speaker 2: shows grinding to a halt thanks to the writers and
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  Speaker 2: actors striking in Hollywood, one of the very biggest shows
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  Speaker 2: continues to shoot House of the Dragon. So how has
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  Speaker 2: it managed to keep going? Writing on the Game of
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  Speaker 2: Throne spinoff was completed for season two some months ago,
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  Speaker 2: meaning the scripts are all locked and therefore available to produce.
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  Speaker 2: And since the show primarily shoots all over Europe and
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  Speaker 2: its cast is large a European, the show is considered
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  Speaker 2: a European production. That means its cast is actually part
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  Speaker 2: of the British acting union called Equity, and UK law
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  Speaker 2: actually forbids the actors from staging a sympathy strike to
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  Speaker 2: show solidarity. George R. R. Martin, the author behind the books,
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  Speaker 2: says he was shocked to learn this because he supports
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  Speaker 2: the strike and believes most people misunderstand it. He writes
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  Speaker 2: on his blog, We're striking for the entry level writers,
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  Speaker 2: the story editors, students open a break in, the actor
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  Speaker 2: who has four lines, the guy working his first staft
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  Speaker 2: job who dreams of creating his own show.
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  Speaker 1: One day.
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  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon is still on track to hit
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  Speaker 2: Max next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.