Shooting for the second season of HBO’s Emmy-winning series House of the Dragon has been continuing without a hitch amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in Hollywood, revealed George R.R. Martin, co-creator and executive producer of the fantasy adventure show, in his blog.

“(House of the Dragon) is shot mostly in London (and a little bit in Wales, Spain, and various other locations)....The actors are members of the British union, Equity, not SAG-AFTRA, and though Equity strongly supports their American cousins (they have a big rally planned to show that support), British law forbids them from staging a sympathy strike. If they walk, they have no protection against being fired for breach of contract, or even sued,” he mentioned in his latest blog post on July 22.

Martin also mentioned that all the scripts for the HBO show had been finished months before the WGA strike had even begun. “No writing has been done since, to the best of my knowledge,” he wrote.

The 74-year-old writer also expressed his feeling about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood. “These strikes are not really about name writers or producers or showrunners, most of whom are fine; we’re striking for the entry-level writers, the story editors, the students hoping to break in, the actor who has four lines, the guy working his first staff job who dreams of creating his own show one day, as I did back in the 80s),” he made his stance clear.

Terming the WGA strike as “the most important of my lifetime”, the veteran writer also said the strike could go on for a long time. “No one can be certain where we go from here, but I have a bad feeling that this strike will be long and bitter. It may get as bad as the infamous 1985 strike, though I hope not.”

Read George R.R. Martin’s blog here.

Martin is also the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).