Zachary Quinto Tells Fran Drescher ‘Do Not Back Down’ Amid Studios’ ‘Best and Final’ Offer: AMPTP Is ‘Relying on Intimidation’ to ‘Bring Strike to an End’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Zachary Quinto recently took to Instagram to make public a personal email he sent to SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher in which he gave her his unwavering support should the union not accept the AMPTP’s current “best and final” offer.
The SAG-AFTRA strike will continue if the offer is rejected, so Quinto wanted to reassure Drescher that he stands behind her and to tell her that she shouldn’t back down and acquiesce to studio pressure. “Fran.
Let me start off by saying how much I respect you and how deeply grateful I am for your tireless efforts on behalf of all of our membership,” Quinto’s email reads. “I hope we get to meet someday so I can express these sentiments to you in person.
You are in an impossibly difficult position right now — and you are bearing up with grace and dignity and power and I am so impressed by how you have handled yourself — and this negotiation — every step of the way.” Quinto made the email public on the 115th day of the SAG-AFTRA strike, as the union’s negotiating committee assessed the studios’ “last, best and final” offer.
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