Fran Drescher Blasts Bob Iger's Strike Comments: 'I Would Lock Him Behind Doors'
Fran Drescher Blasts Bob Iger’s Strike Comments: ‘I Would Lock Him Behind Doors’
"I found them terribly repugnant and out of touch. Positively tone deaf," the SAG-AFTRA president said of the Disney CEO's recent comments on the ongoing strike.
BY SAMANTHA BERGESON
JULY 14, 2023 3:03 PM
SAG president Fran Drescher at the SAG-AFTRA strike protests Getty Images
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher is done babysitting studio executives amid the failed Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers negotiations that led to the current strike.
The “Nanny” TV icon told Variety that Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger’s recent comments about the SAG-AFTRA strike were “tone deaf” and only further cemented Iger’s status as a “land baron of a medieval time” with a massive wealth disparity in Hollywood. During a Thursday morning CNBC interview ahead of the official declaration of the dual-union strike, Iger called the then-possible work stoppage a “very disturbing” and “disruptive” development — especially post-COVID.
“I found them terribly repugnant and out of touch. Positively tone deaf,” Drescher said about Iger’s statement hours before the official SAG strike was announced. “I don’t think it served him well. If I were that company [Disney], I would lock him behind doors and never let him talk to anybody about this, because it’s so obvious that he has no clue as to what is really happening on the ground with hard-working people that don’t make anywhere near the salary he is making.”
She added, “High seven figures, eight figures, this is crazy money that they make and they don’t care if they’re land barons of a medieval time.”
To note, Iger just renewed his Disney contract as CEO through 2026. Iger made $24 million in fiscal year 2022, according to Deadline. The Walt Disney Company laid off 7,000 workers earlier this year.
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