Speaking with Variety on the strike picket lines outside of the Paramount Pictures, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher has slammed Disney CEO Bob Iger’s comments about the writer and actor’s strikes.
In an interview with CNBC yesterday from the Sun Valley Conference, Iger said strikers from both unions were not being ‘realistic’ with their demands.
He said in the interview: “It’s very disturbing to me… there’s a level of expectation that they have that is just not realistic. And they are adding to the set of the challenges that this business is already facing that is, quite frankly, very disruptive.”
Iger’s comments, which came hours before the actor’s strike kicked off, have since been widely criticised on social media, and Drescher didn’t hold back her opinion about them:
“I found them terribly repugnant and out of touch. Positively tone deaf. I don’t think it served him well. If I were that company, I would lock him behind doors and never let him talk to anybody about this, because it’s so obvious that he has no clue as to what is really happening on the ground with hard-working people that don’t make anywhere near the salary he is making. High seven figures, eight figures, this is crazy money that they make, and they don’t care if they’re land barons of a medieval time.”
Drescher’s fiery speech announcing the SAG-AFTRA strike on Thursday has gone viral and has helped push the issue into the global news headlines over the past 48 hours.
