Stephen Rodrick Fran Drescher is on a hero’s journey. I know because she told me. We talked on Monday for about an hour as the actors’ strike moved into a second week.
So far, it’s been very dramatic. Last Thursday, Drescher gave her version of Shakespeare’s Henry V’s St. Crispins Day speech with “we happy few” replaced by all American workers via “I think that the whole world is looking at us right now, because human beings in all different walks of life are being replaced by robots.” The speech launched a thousand labor-supporting memes and left reporters wondering if “The Nanny” was the new Norma Rae.
Drescher carried the mojo into the first day of picketing on Friday when she called Disney CEO Bob Iger a medieval land baron for discourse launched from his Sun Valley Summer Camp.
This was all a reversal of fortune for Drescher who had come across as overly optimistic during negotiations and, in her own words, “naïve” about the chances of SAG-AFTRA getting a good deal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Read more on variety.com