Seth Meyers is congratulating actors after SAG-AFTRA made a deal with the studios to bring their 118-day strike to an end.
“I’m happy to report something happened yesterday that will affect the quality of this show in a very nice way and also the quality of life for actors everywhere,” he said during Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday. “Congratulations to SAG-AFTRA. Congratulations to every worker who organizes and gets the deal they deserve. Well done.”
Meyers also discussed a bit more about how the end of the strike would impact his show. Late night shows resumed following the end of the WGA strike. While they’ve booked plenty of talent during that time, guests have largely been unable to discuss any film or television projects.
Well, Meyer joked, don’t expect that to start on Thursday with the Please Don’t Destroy cast Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy.
“We weren’t gonna be able to talk about the movie because of the strike, and now we can, but I’m still not gonna,” he said. “I wrote my questions yesterday and none of them are about the movie. and I can’t just switch gears like that. We’ll show a clip.”
Of course, that was all in good fun. Meyers assured the audience he would absolutely be touching on Please Don’t Destroy during the show Thursday.
Late night has certainly been chomping at the bit to get actors back on to promote their work, which was exemplified when NBC has adjusted its guests for Friday night’s The Tonight Show with Marvel stars Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson being added at the last minute.
It’s expected that more big stars will be joining the late night party in the next few weeks.
