Dermot Mulroney Tells Fellow Actors to Stop “D*cking Around” and “Strike Immediately” Following ‘The View’ Walk-Off

Dermot Mulroney has been outspoken about his support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) as they continue to strike. After he “symbolically” walked off this morning’s episode of The View, the Secret Invasion star urged fellow actors to stop “dicking around” and join him in the fight.

While speaking with The A.V. Club, Mulroney declared that the best way to stand with writers on the picket line would be for SAG-AFTRA to combine forces with WGA. According to Mulroney, the actors’ union voted “overwhelmingly” to join the strike.

“When the WGA had voted to strike and began negotiating, that took three weeks, so that’s right there three weeks where people aren’t making money, supporting their families,” he told the outlet. “Now add six weeks, now almost two months into this, where writers are out of work to prove their point and to make a better life for their families.”

Mulroney continued, “So I support them 100% as an actor. But I just hope actors don’t take that same kind of time dicking around, and just strike immediately and get this whole thing over with as fast as possible, so we can get back to entertaining America, entertaining the world. There’s no price tag you can put on that.”

The actor expressed confusion over why “all the money is going into these corporate pockets instead of feeding the people that create the product that they sell.”

In a pre-taped episode of The View — which aired earlier today — The Wedding Date star walked off the stage at the end of his interview.

“I want to do this symbolically. In support and solidarity with the writers, I’m gonna walk off your show. Thank you, I’ll see you on the picket lines,” he told the panel, before getting out of his seat and walking off the stage.

Ahead of today’s episode, Mulroney told Variety that he chose to make his statement on the long-running daytime talk show — which is “primarily” unscripted, though Whoopi Goldberg makes mention of the WGA strike nearly every day — because he felt as though it was a “comfortable” environment.

“Since I have such respect for The View, a news program with a heart,” he said, “It was there that I felt comfortable enough to draw attention to the ongoing WGA strike for fair wages and working hours, as I find it incredibly important to continue to support the union.”