Actors Join Writers on Picket Lines to Fight the Studio Oligarchy

“We are being victimized by a very greedy entity,” said Fran Drescher, national president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), after contract negotiations with the streamers and studios fell apart. “They plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right, when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting.” Drescher’s press conference followed a CNBC interview that morning with Disney CEO Bob Iger, after Disney announced the previous day that it had renewed his contract for two more years. Iger’s prior annual salaries have hit $27...