Out on the picket lines, many WGA members huddled around cellphones streaming the SAG-AFTRA news conference and cheered Fran Drescher on as passers-by honked in support: “So proud of her!”
“They’ve recognized, as writers have, that the studios have broken the business and are calling the studios to account,” one showrunner told following the SAG-AFTRA news conference. “We don’t point out how much money these CEOs make to shame them — though they should be ashamed. We point it out to demonstrate that these companies clearly have money. They just don’t want to give it to writers or actors.
The SAG-AFTRA strike order came after talks between the performers union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — which represents studios and streamers — ended July 12 without a new contract. The initial three-year pact was extended from its June 30 expiration and, according to Drescher, the AMPTP “wasted” those additional 12 days. “They stayed locked behind closed doors and canceled our meetings with them,” the former star of “Fran was amazing.
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