The twenty ninth Annual Display screen Actors Guild Awards aired reside on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Sunday night time, and the audio system principally targeted on performing as a substitute of politics, a stark distinction to earlier years –– with the notable exception of SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher who used a part of her time on stage to encourage Hollywood to get extra concerned in state-level politics.     

So what precisely is her plan? 

Nicely, she needs Hollywood to make use of manufacturing {dollars} like a carrot on a keep on with get governors to assist their most popular insurance policies. 

In different phrases, threaten Republican governors who don’t cave to the liberal agenda with boycotts. 

Fran Drescher: SAG -AFTRA and the NFLPA collectively cast Actors & Athletes for Democracy. We’re the best influencers on the planet and should promote freedom for all. Our trade brings billions of manufacturing {dollars} to states throughout the nation, but when they need our enterprise, let’s wield our monetary affect to make governors act in one of the best curiosity of freedom, variety, inclusion and democracy. As my character Bobbi Flekman mentioned in This Is Spinal Faucet, “Cash talks, & bullshit walks!” 

Freedom, variety, inclusion and democracy are all good issues, however when leftists use these phrases, it is sometimes code for extra authorities, extra laws, stricter gun legal guidelines, abortion up-to-the-minute of beginning, the record goes on. 

And this clearly wasn’t an unique thought, as Hollywood has already threatened crimson states over laws that did not align with the liberal agenda. For instance, the threats from film producers to boycott Georgia over a pro-life regulation again in 2019. 

Liberal film producers began fleeing California to crimson states a few years in the past for profitable tax breaks, decrease prices of dwelling, extra inexpensive studio areas and fewer laws, amongst different issues.  

Drescher additionally went on to boast about SAG-AFTRA & MPA’s ‘Inexperienced Council’ and their “greatest effort to avoid wasting the planet since WWII” –– which apparently is simply an honor system to cease utilizing disposable plastics throughout film shoots. 

Fran Drescher: I’m very proud to say SAG-AFTRA and MPA has cast Inexperienced Council, the most important joint effort of Stars and Studios to avoid wasting the planet since World Warfare II. Mission primary, an honor system to remove single use plastic on digicam, behind the scenes and leverage star energy to problem audiences world wide to do the identical.

It’s possible you’ll discover this 12 months in your tables are glass bottles.  

Unsure why Drescher would flex about the usage of glass bottles on the occasion, contemplating glass bottles have a bigger environmental influence than plastic in accordance with the Journal of Waste Assets and Reprocessing, in addition to a number of different environmental researchers. 

In truth, most glass leads to landfills. In response to HowStuffWorks, solely 1 / 4 of glass within the U.S. is recycled. Oof. 

Anywho, the awards present had a stunning lack of opinions on U.S. politics throughout this 2-plus hour present –– which is attention-grabbing contemplating how a lot Hollywood needed to say when Donald Trump was president. 

As you could keep in mind, when it got here Trump’s presidency, clueless celebrities sometimes had one thing detrimental to say at any time when they got a platform to do it. 

President Joe Biden was talked about precisely zero instances. 

Humorous how silent Hollywood is now, regardless of the quantity of challenges our nation is going through beneath his administration.