CEOs are used to being in rooms with people they can control. People who are afraid of them. From the start of this negotiation, Fran has made it clear that they cannot control her — and she is not afraid of them. That scares the shit out of CEOs and gives SAG-AFTRA power.

Fran Drescher and her fearlessness, her unpredicability, and her eccentricity add strength to SAG-AFTRA’s negotiation. This woman has survived cancer and sexual assault and been publicly authentic and vulnerable about both. You think she’s scared of David F. Zaslav?