REUTERS/Mike SegarNEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - Emmy-winning "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston rallied a crowd of striking Hollywood actors on Tuesday with comments directed at Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) Chief Executive Bob Iger.
Iger angered members of the SAG-AFTRA actors union this month by saying their demands for a labor contract with higher pay and limits on use of artificial intelligence were "unreasonable."
At a rally in Times Square in New York near Disney's ABC News studio, Cranston said the actors had "a message for Mr.
The actors' union has asked for a requirement that studios obtain consent to use a star's digital image, among other protections.
"We will not have you take away our right to work and earn a decent living," Cranston said in his remarks directed at Iger.
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