Fran Drescher, the nanny who led and won the actors’ strike in Hollywood and who wants to become president of the United States

Successfully leading an actors’ strike for 118 days in Hollywood brings her in Fran Drescher on the threshold of history.

Nearly 80% of his union ended up reviewing and approving the new contract he negotiated with studios and digital platforms.

Consequentially There have been salary improvements, new rules for the use of artificial intelligence in the industry and increased remuneration for actors for him streaming of their productions.

We are talking about a union of 160 thousand members that the actress seduced in 2021 with her work ethic and passionate defense of her rights.

At the height of the strike, in September, she was re-elected president of SAG-AFTRA for another 2 years.

“Fantastic, and now go run for the presidency of the nation“, He told him Meryl Streep. And she’s not the only one who thinks this is possible.

Comedian, hairdresser and politician

These are those things people ask you as a girl. What will you do when you grow up?. “Writer, actress, president and… stylist” was the response of Francine Drescher, born in 1957 in Queens. We agree that she hit everything. She also took a hairdressing course. which decades later would help her design her character of Fran Fine The nanny.

As an actress, she made her debut in 1977 in a small role in Saturday Night Fever alongside John Travolta. From 1993 to 1998 she became a screenwriter and actress The nanny (The Nanny) the comedy that established her until 2023, when she reinvented herself as a union leader.

She married her high school sweetheart (her partner in producing The nanny) from whom she divorced after 20 years, when he came out, surprising her, although they remained on excellent terms. In 1985 they spent a night of horror together when thieves entered their home and raped her and a friend of hers.

She and her ex have remained on good terms, Fran is very friendly, as seen when He walked into meetings with large production companies carrying a heart-shaped stuffed animal.

This is explained by his practice of Buddhism: he believes this has helped promote empathy and love, which are necessary for any negotiation.

The managers underestimated her and he knew it from day one. For this reason he dedicated his fiery speech to them in July, when he announced the strike. To explain to them why they had taken such an extreme measure, she called them greedy. “They will be left without us,” she warned them. “They leave us no choice.”

President in 2028?

Drescher doesn’t rule out that possibility entirely, “time will tell,” she concludes when pressed on a possible presidential run. But she makes it clear that while she has no problem with people who don’t think like her, she isn’t prepared for violent, hating attacks (haters).

Democratic, he thought he would run as a junior senator from New York to replace Hillary Clinton. She supported her as a candidate as she had with Barack Obama and as she would have with Joe Biden.

Her political commitment began with the fight for Congress to approve a law in 2005 for the prevention and early diagnosis of uterine cancer, a disease diagnosed in 2000. In her memoirs She admits that because she didn’t address the issue of her sexual abuse, the pain settled into her body..

With his union career on the rise she’s starting to get compared to Ronald Reaganthe actor who also led a successful actors’ strike in 1960 and later became president of the United States.

Magazine THR He consulted two Democratic political advisers to see if Fran has a chance. Technical tie. One praised her intelligence and the fact that she made them smile by getting their attention. On the other hand, it seems that her defense of actors who didn’t want vaccine mandates could harm her, even when she is vaccinated.

“What surprised me is the solidarity of workers in other sectors during the strike,” summarizes Fran Drescher, sharing her anti-stress formula during the picket lines: listening to Gregorian chants, reading Buddhist quotes and watching old episodes of The nanny.

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