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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 year ago

Fran Drescher is president of SAG-AFTRA and leading the strike against, amongst other things, studios wanting to use AI to replace actors and writers.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fran Drescher, the woman on the right, is the spokesperson for the current strike in Hollywood, where writers and actors are trying to force the studios to agree to not use AI in upcoming productions. To clarify, she's the current head of SAG/AFTRA, which is the screen actors guild (union).

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We should also add that she used to be the star of a sitcom called The Nanny in the 90s and hasn't been heard of much since, so it was a big surprise to a lot of people (me included) when it turned out she's been really active behind the scenes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah a lot of people mostly recognize her for her very distinctive voice and it’s not what you’d expect for a union president who’s going to strike

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's not her real voice. She got recognized for it, but her actual voice is very regular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJ8B1ek_L0

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can still hear the nasality in her voice, but yeah she hammed it up for The Nanny. Great speech too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fuck yeah! that was awesome! great speech!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here she is speaking with her normal voice

https://youtu.be/zNS2EtQbG5I

The other comment link showcases her ability to turn it off and on in a funny way but the above is relevant to the strike.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/zNS2EtQbG5I

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Nanny being the one to lead the charge vs Skynet is the exact shit I expect from this current clown timeline.

And I'm fine with it. Fran Drescher is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She's an antivax conspiracy chud. Reserve your praise.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Select your praise. You can praise her pro-SAG action without having to also praise or even care about her anti-vax postures.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Right now she's fucking up Hollywood billionaires. If true then I'm willing to use her like we used the Soviets in WW2.

The greater good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

She's passionate and she cares.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Fran is constantly fighting for people’s rights. I love her.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Okay but I think we can all agree Fran Drescher is THE baddest bitch after having watched her impassioned call to arms.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't either until this thread. Fran Drescher is the current president of the screen actors guild and I assume this has something to do with the writers strike. I guess AI content like images and stories, plus their own likeness and brands, is an issue in the strike.

I'm not paying any attention to the writers strike because I haven't really consumed any new hollywood movies or tv shows in quite a while. Hollywood just isn't relevant anymore and they know it, there's just too much content online and other things to keep busy for me to care about their garbage.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fran is quite well known for her role in The Nanny, and a pertinent scene is one where she fights not to cross a picket (strike) line, and her employer forces her across.

So a lot of us who remember this scene are all having a little extra giggle about the whole deal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I always think of this article about how her surviving a home invasion and assault and then having a violent stalker while she was doing the Nanny led to the creation of the role of professional laughers for live studio audiences:

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-dreschers-stalker-ordeal-forever-changed-how-sitcoms-are-made/news-story/bec34c6ea975c3c139002f6990e9234d

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

left:

lead actress in the Terminator movies - Linda Hamilton

right:

Fran Drescher, lead actress in "The Nanny" from the 90s. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000376/ as well as other things, of course. but this is what i remember her from.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She's in the greatest film ever created: UHF.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think it's about the Hollywood actors' strike.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The highly nasal voice that strike fear into the hearts of machines everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bobbi Flekman confronted the sexism in the Spinal Tap album "Smell the Glove" back when she worked artist relations for Polymer Records in 1982. She has known for years that "Money talks, and bullshit walks"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

She confronted it again in UHF. And kicked it.

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