[Source.](https://thepostmillennial.com/hollywood-actors-to-join-writers-on-strike-nothing-of-value-will-be-lost) > This will be the first time both writers and actors are on strike simultaneously since 1960. > At midnight Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of actors got the word to go on strike after negotiations with studios were not successful. Hollywood actors now join writers on the picket line. Writers Guild of America have been on strike for over two months. > Despite the writers' strike, there is still endless content available across thousands of platforms and from the archives of a century of filmmaking that is available to viewers.