In a previous Instagram post over the weekend, Quaid gave his followers a sense of what to expect from him and his fellow actors until the strike is resolved. “I can’t promote any of my projects until SAG-AFTRA gets a fair deal, so strap in for a lot of 👍🏻 and strike memes for the foreseeable future,” he wrote.

SAG-AFTRA, the labor union representing some 160,000 actors and other performers, declared a strike last week after negotiations for a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers fell apart. Starting July 14, SAG-AFTRA members joined Hollywood screenwriters on the picket lines after the WGA walked out in May.

At a press conference announcing the actors’ strike, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said in a fiery speech, “We are being victimized by a very greedy entity… The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI. This is a moment of history that is a moment of truth.”

In anticipation of the strike last week, several of Quaid’s castmates in Oppenheimer — including Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh — left the film’s London premiere early “to write their picket signs.”

Quaid has had a busy 2023 so far: In addition to his supporting role in Oppenheimer, he voiced an alternate version of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and is playing Superman/Clark Kent on the Max animated series My Adventures With Superman. He’s also slated to reprise his animated Star Trek: Lower Decks role in live action on an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.