Studio executives "ended up offering us basically bupkis," Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, told Salon just over a week after the union made up of 160,000 members announced it would strike. Since then, thousands of actors have formed picket lines in New York, Los Angeles and across the county, in hopes of reaching an agreement for increased minimum pay, protections against artificial intelligence (AI) and residuals aligned with the industry's current structure that relies heavily on streaming.
In a video interview for "Salon Talks," Drescher, the creator and star of "The Nanny," called out the CEOs in charge of the corporations represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which includes Amazon, Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. Discovery.
