The meeting late Monday in Beverly Hills came after SAG and the AMPTP broke off talks May 6 after 18 days of negotiations. The AMPTP is currently bargaining with AFTRA on the performers union's primetime contract.

At Monday's meeting, SAG president Alan Rosenberg and national executive director and chief negotiator Doug Allen were given standing ovations by the crowd, who urged the leaders to be tougher with the producers, according to one member who attended the meeting.

"The reception was great," the actor said. "Generally, it is divided into political factions with the people who get up to the microphones, with one side who wants to take a stronger stance and another side who wants to take a compliant stance, and that wasn't the case."

The duo gave about a 90-minute presentation to members packed into the WGA Theater, before opening up the floor to questions. Many expressed their displeasure with AFTRA, the insider said, though Rosenberg cautioned them to not focus on AFTRA bashing but rather the negotiations, which might resume May 28.

Leslie Simmons of The Hollywood Reporter has the story