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SAG union president Fran Drescher says she fears striking actors could be replaced by ROBOTS
Daily Mail ^ | 7/14/23 | WILL POTTER

Posted on 07/13/2023 11:30:34 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

The leader of Hollywood's most influential actors' union admitted her industry's devastating strike is partially fueled by fears thespians will be replaced by robots.

Fran Drescher shook her fists in anger as she slammed showbiz fat cats for failing to negotiate, which had earlier in the day led the SAG-AFRA union to join screenwriters on the picket line for the first time in more than six decades.

'I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business are treating us,' the actress, best known for starring in 90s sitcom The Nanny, said at a news conference Thursday.

Talking to the Hollywood Reporter after her remarks, Drescher added that ominous technology is one of the key reasons behind the strike, because 'the digital age is cannibalizing us.'

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...And that would be bad, how again?
1 posted on 07/13/2023 11:30:34 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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"First of all , A.I. is a fancy thing. A.I. stands for "Artificial Intelligence".....


2 posted on 07/13/2023 11:32:54 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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I am guessing a lot of those robots are better actresses than Fran Dresher, or the entire cast of Hollywood Knights/.
3 posted on 07/13/2023 11:35:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I thought Fran Drescher was galivanting with Kim Kardashian in Italy?


4 posted on 07/13/2023 11:35:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If the robots don’t try to lecture me about global warming and transgender rights, I’m all for the robots.


5 posted on 07/13/2023 11:38:43 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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The SAG is going to have to form a RAG for the robots.


6 posted on 07/13/2023 11:53:40 PM PDT by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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article "Fran Drescher says she fears striking actors could be replaced by ROBOTS"

Cool. It would only be an improvement. Excellent.

7 posted on 07/13/2023 11:57:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Now do politicians! Then on-air media “talent”...


8 posted on 07/13/2023 11:59:44 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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Sounds good but the Left would still program the robots to shoot their stupid mouths off.
9 posted on 07/14/2023 12:04:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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The robots could do a remake of A.I. and do a better job of it.


10 posted on 07/14/2023 12:19:16 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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"SAG union president Fran Drescher says she fears striking actors could be replaced by ROBOTS

The robot in the White House doesn't bother her? Maybe she objects only to intelligent robots.
11 posted on 07/14/2023 12:33:43 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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I’ve been expecting this to happen since CGI came on the scene.


12 posted on 07/14/2023 12:38:44 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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after years of drivel, inferior movies and shows, sprinkled with their moralizing lectures from behind their gated homes, i have little sympathy. i do feel for the real workers now thrown out of work. the sooner they deal with the realities of the digital age the better. in the meantime i am happy to watch British tv /movies on Acorn and Britbox. i can exist for months re-viewing “Inspector Morse”...!!


13 posted on 07/14/2023 1:27:16 AM PDT by avital2
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The people in the movie business are worthless. I trust the entire entertainment business suffers.


14 posted on 07/14/2023 1:44:43 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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IMHO she has little to worry about.

To this date robot engineers have still not been able to create an entertainment robot that can act as dreadfully as Fran Drescher
or one that can reproduce her whining, fingernails-on-a-chalkboard screech.


15 posted on 07/14/2023 2:53:00 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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Do robots go on strike? Fran could be in big trouble.


16 posted on 07/14/2023 2:58:27 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I thought the most influencial union was the Film Actors Guild


17 posted on 07/14/2023 3:22:06 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Hopefully, they will strike forever.


18 posted on 07/14/2023 3:27:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Anyone recall the movie Looker...
19 posted on 07/14/2023 3:28:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Well, if not by robots, maybe by AI...Any Intelligence...


20 posted on 07/14/2023 3:35:27 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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