Speechless

On Thanksgiving day a group of WGA members launched the "Speechless" campaign, a series of black and white videos featuring A-List SAG members showing their support for the WGA.

The campaign was conceived by writer/director George Hickenlooper and writer Alan Sereboff after seeing the all the tremendous SAG talent out supporting the WGA on the picket lines from day 1. Hickenlooper, who directed Factory Girl, suggested a series of Warholesque screen tests with the talent remaining silent to show solidarity with the writers. Sereboff brought the Speechless concept to the table, where the talent would remain silent, eventually holding up a hand written sign that simply said "speechless". The two combined the ideas under one banner and within a few days had recruited a pretty impressive team including: DGA members Paul Haggis (Crash), Rod Lurie (The Contender), and Wayne Kramer (The Cooler) & WGA members Steve Pink (Grosse Pointe Blank) , Jill Kushner (Ellen), and members of the writing staff for The Tonight Show. Justine Bateman (that's right, Mallory Keaton), who is a SAG board member, played an instrumental part in recruiting the talent.

Already confirmed to appear in the campaign are:
Sean Penn, Holly Hunter, Laura Linney, Alan Cumming, Jay Leno, Harvey Keitel, Kate Beckinsale, Tina Fey, Tim Robbins, Gary Marshall, David Schwimmer, Patricia Clarkson, James Franco, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Sheen, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon, Andre 3000, Chazz Palminteri, Jason Bateman, Christine Lahti, Patricia Arquette, Jenna Elfman, Olivia Wilde, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Eva Longoria, Justine Bateman, Joshua Jackson, Rosanna Arquette, Diane Ladd, Rebecca Romjin, Minnie Driver, Nicollette Sheridan, Robert Patrick, Matthew Perry, Ed Asner, America Ferrera and the cast of Ugly Betty, Woody Allen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jane Fonda, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, Jason Alexander, Charlize Therone, Minnie Driver, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

You can read more about it here.