The twenty ninth Annual Display Actors Guild Awards aired dwell on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Sunday evening, and the audio system largely targeted on performing as an alternative 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 business 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 the most effective curiosity of freedom, range, inclusion and democracy. As my character Bobbi Flekman stated in This Is Spinal Faucet, “Cash talks, & bullshit walks!” 

Freedom, range, 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 date of delivery, the listing 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 “largest effort to save lots of 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 largest joint effort of Stars and Studios to save lots of the planet since World Struggle II. Mission primary, an honor system to get rid of single use plastic on digital camera, behind the scenes and leverage star energy to problem audiences world wide to do the identical.

You might discover this yr in your tables are glass bottles.  

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

Actually, most glass leads to landfills. In accordance with 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 fascinating contemplating how a lot Hollywood needed to say when Donald Trump was president. 

As chances are you’ll bear in mind, when it got here Trump’s presidency, clueless celebrities sometimes had one thing detrimental to say every time they got a platform to do it. 

President Joe Biden was talked about precisely zero occasions. 

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