Fran Drescher boarded the bus and has landed at her first picket line on the first day of the actors strike. The Nanny star was mobbed outside of Netflix’s Hollywood HQ after giving a rousing speech in defense of actors after talks collapses with the AMPTP. “We are the victims here and they’re doing bad things to good people.
They’re not willing to share in their wealth and change contracts to accommodate the new business model,” she said. Drescher and SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland spoke yesterday about how the studios were unwilling to come to an acceptable agreement on issues such as AI protection and streaming residuals, with Drescher calling the studios “greedy”.
When asked by Deadline about her dealings with AMPTP leader Carol Lombardini, Drescher said, “I called her on some of the BS and I think that she met her match and I don’t think she was expecting it from me and Duncan but Duncan told her right in the beginning ‘Do not doubt our resolve on this’ and unfortunately it fell on deaf ears.”“Do not doubt our resolve on this,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher tells Deadline today outside Netflix in L.A.
for Day 1 of the #ActorsStrike pic.twitter.com/fgPVoGN38n Drescher added that she believes the studios “duped” SAG-AFTRA with the talks extension so that they could promote summer movies, which include Barbie and Oppenheimer. “We thought they were really serious about making [a deal] but that’s not what happened… they came back with bupkis.
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