The actors’ union announced at a Thursday press conference that the strike will begin at midnight after its national board unanimously authorized the walkout.
Fran Drescher, former star of /”The Nanny/” TV show and the president of SAG-AFTRA, called the studios’ responses to actors’ concerns /”insulting and disrespectful./”
Hollywood has not faced simultaneous strikes since 1960, when members of the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild both walked off the job in a fight over residuals from films sold to TV networks.
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