{"id":35819,"date":"2023-07-14T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/tone-deaf-and-repugnant-sag-president-fran-drescher-hits-back-at-disney-ceo-bob-igers-strike-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T23:38:23","slug":"tone-deaf-and-repugnant-sag-president-fran-drescher-hits-back-at-disney-ceo-bob-igers-strike-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=35819","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tone-deaf\u2019 and \u2018repugnant\u2019: SAG president Fran Drescher hits back at Disney CEO Bob Iger\u2019s strike comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n \u201c<\/span>\u2018I found him terribly repugnant and out of touch, and positively tone-deaf. \u2026 If I were that company, I would lock him behind doors and never let him talk to anybody about this.\u2019\u201d<\/span>\n <\/p>\n


\n \u2014 SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher<\/span>
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That was Fran Drescher, the SAG-AFTRA president and former \u201cThe Nanny\u201d star, responding in a Variety interview to Walt Disney
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\n Chief Executive Bob Iger after he said this week that striking Hollywood actors and writers aren\u2019t being \u201crealistic\u201d in their expectations. <\/p>\n

Drescher also compared Iger to a \u201cland baron of a medieval time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SAG-AFTRA union actors went on strike this week after negotiations with major studios and streaming giants such as Disney, Sony
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\n failed to produce a contract agreement, and their contracts expired Wednesday. The actors joined Writers Guild of America members, who have been on strike since May over wages and other issues.<\/p>\n

Iger said in a CNBC interview Thursday that this is the \u201cworst time in the world to add to [the] disruption\u201d in the entertainment industry, citing what he called an incomplete recovery from COVID-19 and other forces including technology. Among the tech-related issues in the negotiations: how much in residuals actors should receive from streaming platforms, and the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, to represent actors\u2019 likenesses.<\/p>\n

Iger said those who are on strike are \u201cadding to the set of the challenges that this business is already facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dresher told Variety on Friday that Iger\u2019s comments showed he is out of touch with actors who \u201cdon\u2019t make anywhere near the salary that he\u2019s making,\u201d which she called \u201ccrazy money.\u201d <\/p>\n

See: <\/strong>Hollywood actors\u2019 strike halts production on \u2018Deadpool 3,\u2019 \u2018Venom 3\u2019 and the next part of \u2018Mission Impossible 8\u2019<\/p>\n

According to Disney\u2019s most recent annual report, Iger\u2019s total compensation in 2022 was right under $15 million. Iger, who retired from Disney in 2021 and then returned to the company last year after his successor was fired, received compensation of nearly $46 million in 2021 and $21 million the year before that.<\/p>\n

Disney did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

According to SAG-AFTRA\u2019s most recent rate sheet for productions with a budget of at least $2 million, the minimum daily pay rate for actors hired on a daily basis and without a long-term contract, also known as day performers, was $1,082. <\/p>\n

In a statement this week, the\u00a0Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said it had offered the actors historic pay and residual increases, among other things, and that the union \u201cregrettably\u201d walked away from negotiations.<\/p>\n

Drescher and other SAG-AFTRA leaders said earlier this week that the studios had refused to negotiate in good faith.<\/p>\n

From our archives (May 2023): <\/strong>Are Hollywood writing jobs the next frontier for gig work? Here\u2019s what a striking writer says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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