Actors called a strike Thursday, shutting down Hollywood, and SAG-Aftra President Fran Drescher (yes, ‘The Nanny’) slammed Hollywood studios in a fierce speech that has now gone viral. Calling the studios “disgusting” for claiming “they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs,” she went on to say that actors were being “marginalized, disrespected and dishonored” by a business model that has been drastically altered by streaming and artificial intelligence.
“What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” she said.
“We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.
“I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history.”