Drescher tore into the studios’ executives and their negotiating body, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “There he is, sitting in his designer clothes and just got on his private jet at the billionaire’s camp, telling us we’re unrealistic when he’s making $78,000 a day. '”Drescher also described the studios’ negotiating committee as lacking empathy. On July 13, SAG-AFTRA called a strike as well, its roughly 160,000 members making history as this is the first double strike of actors and writers since 1960. The last writers strike was in 2007-08, lasted 100 days and cost California’s economy an estimated $2.1 billion.
