With her fiery speech announcing the SAGAFTRA strike, Fran Drescher became an unlikely leader at the forefront of America’s labor movement.
posted a photo of herself and Drescher posing at a Dolce and Gabbana promotional event in Italy just days before the guild contract was set to expire. “It’s not a good look,” one actor told me last week. Crabtree-Ireland passionately stood up for Drescher at the strike press conference, pointing out that Fran was doing her job as a brand ambassador for the fashion line.
Even her ascension to the SAG-AFTRA presidency was embattled. She ran as part of the United for Strength Party in a bruising race against, who positioned himself as more of a firebrand with the Membership First faction. Although she won the election, some members remained critical of her capacities. When I interviewed Drescher last year, she told me that as a little girl in Queens, she dreamed of being a politician, as well as a writer, a hairdresser, and actor. “I kind of ended up being them all in different ways,” she said. She spent years playing tiny parts in television and movies before she waylaid the president of CBS on a plane in 1991 and sold him on her idea of a television show about a nanny.
When I asked Drescher last year why she’d decided to be a guild leader, she told me, “All of the Zen masters say don’t try and swim upstream, just let life come to you. When this came to me as an opportunity to run, I really thought, This seems to be an amalgam of many of my strengths and accomplishments coming to a point in this one defining moment.” She said of SAG-AFTRA, “We're a large collective. And as a large group, we can matter. I think we should matter.
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