Fran Drescher Slams “Greedy” Studio CEOs ; Want To “Keep Us Their Peons,” SAG-AFTRA Prez Says
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fran Drescher is less concerned with meeting of several showrunners with WGA leadership this week and more concerned with studios and streamers getting back to the bargaining table to make a fair deal. “The showrunners meeting with the WGA?
I don’t know really how that makes me hopeful for the studio CEOs coming to the table,” the recently reelected SAG-AFTRA president told Deadline today as she was leaving the union’s LA Local’s Solidarity march and rally outside Paramount Studios After an on-off-on-off back and forth over the last few weeks, black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Fargo’s Noah Hawley and others are set to sit down with the guild negotiating committee on September 15 at the WGA building on Fairfax and 3rd.
Always intended as an “information session,” drama around scheduling the meeting has been perceived by some as an attempt by the AMPTP to carve out discord among the scribes and their guild.
A move that the always outspoken Drescher didn’t hesitate to rip into. “I don’t feel like showrunners are in opposition to performers,” Drescher exclaimed Wednesday in response to a question about the high profile sit-down. “That’s not who we’re striking against.
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