SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher joined members of her guild marching in solidarity with Writers Guild of America members Monday on the picket lines in front of the entrance to Paramount Pictures’ backlot.Amid this display of solidarity, Drescher is preparing with SAG-AFTRA to begin talks on their own new contract, and she is signaling that actors need major change in Hollywood just as much as writers.“We can’t keep building on a contract that was developed in the 1980s,” Drescher told TheWrap. “I’m hoping that we go in with a new perspective, a different portal to enter the conversation just as we did with other talks that we were successful in resolving.
Drescher was joined on the picket line by SAG-AFTRA EVP Ben Whitehair and WGA West president Meredith Stiehm. While the star of “The Nanny” says she’s not surprised by the turnout from her members, given the long history of solidarity within Hollywood labor, she sees it as a sign that members of both guilds understand that they must band together to get the changes they want in an entertainment industry defined increasingly by streaming. “We all understand that we have entered a streaming age, and that the expiring contracts reflect a different period in entertainment history,” Drescher said. “That in and of itself dictates some imaginative change and restructuring.”Within SAG-AFTRA, guild leaders were in close communication with members before the start of the WGA strike this past Tuesday.
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