A committed actress! On the front line of protests against Hollywood studios, Fran Drescher is now the president of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, which joined the movement on July 13!
Spokesperson and face of the strike, the one that was revealed in the early 1990s in the essential series A nanny from Infrfights for the salary increase of screenwriters and actors, seriously impacted financially since the arrival of streaming and artificial intelligence.
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“We wanted to avoid the strike at all costs. Most of our members don’t make $10,000 a year. […] They are part of the working class, so the weight of this mobilization is very heavy. But they gave us all their support, and we needed it […] Remember: Tom Cruise and the bigger players have their own deals. It is not for them that we go on strike, but for the workers”she explained to our colleagues from variety this Wednesday, July 19, 2023.
Fran Drescher, the one who is at the head of a union of more than 160,000 members, therefore demonstrated in front of the Paramount Pictures studios in Los Angeles on July 13, before confiding to the American press that she regretted having been so naive at the start of the negotiations. “With hindsight, I can see that we were manipulated. I came in with a certain level of confidence, I thought we would be able to get a deal. But as time went on, I started to understand that they were going to play defensive […] We gave them an extra 12 days to come back with really meaningful proposals. But they just wanted to have more time to promote their summer movies, they never intended to use this extension for anything else”she said, more lifted than ever!
Twelve days which indeed arrived at the right time insofar as two ultra-awaited films saw the light of day during this period: Barbie of Greta Gerwig And Oppenheimer of Christopher Nolan.
LZ