That's Gonna Leave a Mark!
She has broken down what is broken with the studios and producers, and proven herself to be a fierce advocate for her union brothers and sisters:
Fran Drescher is best known for her six seasons as “The Nanny”: colossal hair, loud clothes, indefatigable moxie, fathomless pluck and, most of all, that voice. It’s a voice of unadulterated New Yawkese that can cause a 10-car crackup, lift fog and part waves, and that resides as a permanent earworm in many of our brains.
Now, as president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), it is that same indelible voice leading the approximately 160,000-member actors union on strike that may last much of the year. Last week’s measured yet fiery speech to rally the troops, a call to the picket lines, her left hand and index finger gesticulating in overtime, was peppered with Franisms: “Wake up and smell the coffee,” “The jig is up” and “What are we doing? Moving around furniture on the Titanic?”
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In recent years, she has become increasingly outspoken on political issues. She was declared an “anti-capitalist icon” by the Cut. In May of last year, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on abortion, she told a New York radio station, “If you’re going to legislate a woman’s body, then you got to legislate the penis that got her in this mess.”
Becoming SAG-AFTRA president was not originally her idea. “I was solicited,” Drescher said. “They gave me three days to decide. I did a lot of soul-searching.”
With the actors strike, “basically the entire business model has changed,” she said. Producers and studio executives, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), “have no feelings. They don’t care. Their entire business model is to screw us so they can look good to their shareholders,” she said.
We are currently living in profoundly strange times.
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