 Hollywood's Actors' Union has reached a tentative deal with studios to end its strike, the contract agreement reached Wednesday still must be approved by the union's board and its members, but the deal brings an end to the months of labor strife that has hobbled production in Hollywood, the union says the strike will be over on Thursday. Screenwriters ended their own strike on September 26. It was the first time both writers and actors were on strike together since 1960.The details of the agreement were not immediately released, but are likely to be shared with the actors and the public in the coming days. I mean, it's absolutely incredible. It's its surreal, said Ely Henry, a SAG-AFTRA member and strike captain. For 140 days since May, you know, the town has pretty much been in stasis for the last six months, but now we're looking at an environment where production can slowly start to resume. We know that AI was one of the very last sticking points. It's a really fast-moving technology, so there was a lot of discussion over this thing that, honestly, I don't think was on a lot of actors or even writers' radars about a year ago, but really came to the fore over the course of the last six months. And so there was a lot of language that was being nitpicked over there. Of course, we don't know the exact contents of the deal. That should be released soon, but with a unanimous vote, it seems like a very strongly backed proposal, especially given that the Writers Guild of America really declared an enormous victory with their deal, which brought staffing minimums and AI protections and screaming residuals to their 11,500 members. So it's imperative for SAG-AFTRA to feel like they're able to bring a really strong package to their own membership. The strike is officially over, but the SAG-AFTRA National Board still has to approve the deal on Friday, and after that it goes to the membership of 160,000 people to be ratified, and then everybody can really get back to work. But for now, I'm told inside the room, inside the deliberation room, the mood among the Union's negotiating committee is jubilant, and there are very tired tears. It's absolutely incredible. It's surreal. I don't quite know how it fully feels yet, to be perfectly honest with you. I'm excited to see what's in the deal and know all the details, but if our negotiating committee thought it was good, then I'm sure it's good. I've gotten into a very solid routine of waking up, going to Paramount, telling people to get out of a crosswalk. The idea that I get to discover if I still remember how to act is very exciting. You know, it's... I'm just grateful for the fact that so many people are going to get back to work, not just actors, but crew. I mean, IOTC goes into negotiations next year, and it's a similar fight, and the studios really punished them, you know. Kept this thing going a very, very long time, and I'm just excited for all the people that are now going to be able to be able to feed their families and sleep better at night knowing that there's work.