Fran Drescher, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, delivered a rousing speech Thursday when she announced the union’s members would join writers in a strike.
Writers and actors are asking for higher wages and guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence, among other things. In a six-minute speech, Drescher fired off at the “billionaires” running the major studios and streaming services, saying they have forgotten about those “who make the machine run.”
“What happens here is important, because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor by means of when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority,” she said.Drescher’s performance quickly drew comparisons to Fran Fine, a loud, nasally voiced, working-class woman the actor played on the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” who once refused to cross a picket line to bypass a strike.
As quotes from Drescher’s speech flooded social media, many resurrected a clip from her show’s second season, in which Drescher cemented her status as a labor icon when her character refused to walk into one of her boss’s lavish parties because the busboys were striking outside. In the episode, Nanny Fine told her millionaire boss that she wouldn’t budge, citing her mother’s three time-tested rules: Never make contact with a public toilet. Never wear musk oil to the zoo.
Drescher, 65, became president of SAG-AFTRA, which represents more than 160,000 members, in 2021. In a statement released after narrowly defeating actor Matthew Modine, Drescher vowed to fight for “more benefits, stronger contracts and better protections.”Union members are expected to join the picket lines on Friday in a move that will effectively shut down the filming that has continued since the writers strike started in May.
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