Ron Perlman declined to talk about the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike as he left famed Los Angeles restaurant Craig’s on Saturday.
The 73-year-old actor was with his wife Allison Dunbar, 50, at the eatery on Melrose Avenue when he was asked his final thoughts on the labor dispute that has brought the entertainment industry to a near halt.
“I don’t have an opinion, everyone knows that,” the Washington Heights, New York resident jokingly said weeks after going viral for a strongly worded response to a studio exec “who said we’re going to let this thing continue until people are starting to lose their houses and apartments.’
While peppered with questions from a photographer, the Beauty and the Beast star said, “You’re not still messing around here are you? It’s bloody Saturday night, I’m on strike.’
The actor made headlines on July 14 after sending a very stern warning to a Hollywood studio executive during a fiery tirade in a since-deleted Instagram video amid the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike.
The latest: Ron Perlman, 73, refused to talk about the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike as he left famed Los Angeles restaurant Craig’s on Saturday with wife Allison Dunbar, 50
The Sons Of Anarchy actor made the statement shortly after SAG-AFTRA officially joined the Picketers of the Writers Guild of America for the first time in six decades.
The star responded to an anonymous executive count deadline earlier this month that “the endgame is to let things drag on until union members start losing their apartments and homes,” with one source labeling the tactic “a cruel but necessary evil.”
Ron expressed in the deleted clip, per TMZ, “The only thing before I get off this, the asshole who said we’re going to keep this thing going until people start losing their houses and apartments. Listen to my mother ******!’
“There are many ways to lose your home. Part of it is financial, part is karma, and part is just figuring out who the hell said that.’
Perlman continued, “And we know who said that and where the hell he lives;” after a short pause, he added, “There are many ways to lose your home.
“You wish that on people, you wish families to starve while you make $27 million a year creating nothing. Be careful, mother ******. Be really careful because that’s the kind of shit that makes a mess. Peace out.’
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, also known by the AMPTP, primarily represents the Hollywood studios and production companies. Insiders told Deadline that studios have no plans to sit down with the WGA until possibly the fall.
Out and about: The veteran actor was with his wife at the eatery on Melrose Avenue when asked about his final thoughts on the labor dispute that has brought the entertainment industry to a near halt
Good morning: The Beauty and the Beast actor was spotted with a tray of croissants in LA on Sunday
On Strike: Perlman was pictured Thursday from the picket line outside Fox Studios in LA
A separate studio executive told Deadline that companies like Paramount, Netflix, Disney, and also Warner Bros. Discovery have plans to “break the WGA.”
The companies believe writers will be hit financially once fall hits and could work out “any deal possible.”
However, a spokesman for the AMPTP denied such intentions, stating: ‘These anonymous people are not speaking on behalf of the AMPTP or affiliated companies, who are determined to strike a deal and get our industry back to work.’
In a follow-up clip on his main Instagram page, which he captioned as “Strike Part II,” Perlman apologized for his words earlier in the previous tirade.
At the beginning of the clip, he could be seen sitting in a spacious living room, referring back to the studio manager’s quote and his heated response.
“As you can imagine, my reaction to someone wishing that kind of evil on people in the same industry they call their own would provoke a reaction. So now let me make something very clear. I don’t wish anyone any harm.’
He added, “I hope the bastard who made that comment doesn’t wish anyone harm either, but if you start walking around saying ‘we’re not even going to negotiate with these f***ing d***heads until they begin to bleed and their families begin to bleed…”
Perlman then called it a “symptom” of “a struggle much bigger than the strike itself” and “a symptom of the soullessness of corporate America and how everything in this country has become corporate.”
Stern warning: Perlman sent a very stern warning to a Hollywood studio executive during a fiery July 14 tirade in a now-deleted Instagram Live video on Friday amid the current SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike
Warmed: “You wish that on people, you wish families to starve while making $27 million a year for creating nothing. Be careful, mother ******. Be really careful because that’s the kind of shit that makes a mess. Peace out,” he said
Continued: Later, Perlman uploaded another video on his main Instagram page which he captioned as “Strike Part II” where he apologized for his words earlier in the previous tirade
At the end of his lengthy statement, the actor added, “Let’s keep some measure of humanity in all of this, okay?” and also called for ‘dignity’.
Perlman spoke The cover Speaking from the picket line outside Fox Studios in Los Angeles on Thursday about the fallout from the viral clip, he said he “didn’t expect” the widespread coverage and reaction the clip provoked.
Perlman said it was illustrative of the press’s “sensational ability to take someone with strong context … even further out of context.”
The Transformers: Rise of the Beasts actor added to his sequel, “I came back later that afternoon to express my full intention, which is that none of us should wish any of us that kind of harm.”
“None of us should wish any of our families that we’re going to lose things that we’ve worked a lifetime on — really, really, really worked seriously and loyally and beautifully — just to get a roof over our heads. None of us have goddamn golden parachutes.’
Perlman said the aforementioned comments from a studio exec about the strike driving actors into insolvency added a dire tone to the ongoing labor dispute.
“The cruelty that comes from a horrible statement like, ‘We’re not going to come to the negotiating table until people start bleeding’ – That’s war. That’s not a negotiation. There’s nothing civil about that. That is a threat to people’s well-being.’