Oscar and Emmy winners will now likely be seen on picket lines outside studios and corporate offices.
strike will shut down the small number of productionsMany actors made a show of solidarity on the writers' picket lines, including Fran Drescher, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists president and former star of "The Nanny." The union's 65,000-member actors' branch will now formally join them as fellow strikers.
No talks are planned, and no end is in sight for the work stoppage, the first time both guilds have walked off sets since 1960. During that strike, then-actor Ronald Regan was SAG's leader. "We had no choice. We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity," Drescher said. "I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. I cannot believe it, quite frankly: How far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs.
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