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The Venice Film Festival begins tomorrow, followed closely by Telluride and then Toronto. I\u2019ve waxed poetic before about the impeccable conduct of actors and union leaders during the strike, and now that Tepid Film Festival Fall™ is officially underway, I am very eager to see the next phase play out. I feel like the tone may be about to shift, given that there\u2019s so much business involved with the festivals. This may be why we saw SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher record a composed, if somewhat sober interview last week. Once again she emphasized that the writers and actors strikes are about all workers, not just Hollywood. A few choice quotes:<\/p>\n

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No more:<\/strong> \u201cAt some point you have to say no more,\u201d Drescher, the former \u201cNanny\u201d star who is now president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, said in an interview at the union\u2019s headquarters Wednesday. \u201cI think that it\u2019s taken on a bigger scope, it\u2019s greater than the sum of its parts. I think it\u2019s a conversation now about the culture of big business, and how it treats everybody up and down the ladder in the name of profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her barn-burner speech wasn\u2019t scripted:<\/strong> Drescher told the AP that she had no intention of getting on a soap box that day. She was supposed to read a written statement, then take questions. \u201cI looked at it quickly and I said, \u2018You know what, I can\u2019t say this, I really feel like I have to speak from the heart,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cThat just kind of came out of my mouth, and I\u2019m glad that I was able to express myself as succinctly and sincerely and authentically as I did. And I think that it\u2019s fascinating when you speak from the heart, people are so responsive. Because I guess they see a lot of people that don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

On success with The Nanny<\/em> in the 90s:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m very grateful that I got my big break during that time and not this time,\u201d Drescher said. \u201cWhen I started on \u2018The Nanny\u2019 at CBS, that was still a family owned business. You knew who the owners were and you could talk to them. And everything has changed\u2026 Now, when you have a business model where the CEOs are more connected to the shareholders and not to the people that actually make the product that they\u2019re selling,\u201d she said. \u201cI think that you have a breakdown that is unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

An inflection point:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m not really understanding what the silent treatment is,\u201d Drescher said. \u201cIt could be a tactical strategy to see if they can wait us out until we lose our resolve and then they can make a better deal for themselves.\u201d Drescher said nothing like that is going to happen. \u201cThis is an inflection point,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody that\u2019s in charge of the AMPTP quite understands that. This is not like any past negotiation. We\u2019re in a whole new ball game. And if things don\u2019t change radically, quite frankly, I think that they\u2019re going to ultimately get very hurt by this strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[From AP News]<\/p>\n

BOOM, mic drop. If you watch the video of the interview, you see she\u2019s very calm throughout. It\u2019s like the polar opposite to her now infamous speech from July. Again, I think this new composure is all about a new phase of the strike. She\u2019s reined in the emotions to talk business with the business boys. And I have to say, I just love the way she ends it with faux concern about how AMPTP is about to have their asses handed to them. \u201cGuys, I\u2019m really worried about you. You don\u2019t seem to realize how much trouble you\u2019re in. Call me!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Completely random anecdote: when I was a sophomore in high school I\u2019d come home in the afternoon, turn on the tv to Nanny<\/em> reruns, and settle in to do the eleventy-one geometry problems I had for homework that night\u2014and I passed!!! If Nanny Fine could get me through Euclidean geometry, I trust her to get the actors through this strike.<\/p>\n