SAG-AFTRA union actors went on strike this week, joining Writers Guild of America members.
That was Fran Drescher, the SAG-AFTRA president and former “The Nanny” star, responding in a Variety interview to Walt Disney DIS Chief Executive Bob Iger after he said this week that striking Hollywood actors and writers aren’t being “realistic” in their expectations.SAG-AFTRA... “‘I found him terribly repugnant and out of touch, and positively tone-deaf. … If I were that company, I would lock him behind doors and never let him talk to anybody about this.
Iger said in a CNBC interview Thursday that this is the “worst time in the world to add to [the] disruption” in the entertainment industry, citing what he called an incomplete recovery from COVID-19 and other forces including technology. Among the tech-related issues in the negotiations: how much in residuals actors should receive from streaming platforms, and the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, to represent actors’ likenesses.
Dresher told Variety on Friday that Iger’s comments showed he is out of touch with actors who “don’t make anywhere near the salary that he’s making,” which she called “crazy money.” According to Disney’s most recent annual report, Iger’s total compensation in 2022 was right under $15 million. Iger, who retired from Disney in 2021 and then returned to the company last year after his successor was fired, received compensation of nearly $46 million in 2021 and $21 million the year before that.
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