Actor and SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher went viral for blasting Hollywood executives for failing to avoid a strike and produce a new labor contract for actors in an impassioned speech Thursday. Drescher strongly emphasized that actors are being "victimized by a greedy entity."
"The Nanny" veteran's speech fired up the 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members going on strike after 98% of the union's membership authorized the action in June. The actors will join the Writers Guild of America, which began its strike on May 2, with dual work stoppages creating the biggest shutdown in Hollywood since the 1960s. (Salon's unionized employees are represented by the WGA East.)
