Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech against Hollywood studios as actors strike

The Nanny star blasts Hollywood studios after talks between the actors’ union and studios fail to avert a strike, calling them 'disgusting' for claiming they’re losing money while 'giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs'. Fran Drescher is president of Hollywood's biggest union, Sag-Aftra. About 160,000 of its members are joining the Writers Guild of America in a strike, marking the biggest shutdown of Hollywood since both unions last went on strike together in 1960. The unions are fighting for better terms with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents major studios and streamers, including Amazon, Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros Discovery ► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube Fran Drescher’s fiery speech against Hollywood studios goes viral as actors strike Hollywood actors are going on strike. Here’s what that means Disney chief Bob Iger says strike by writers and actors ‘very disturbing’