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[–] jhymesba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Excellent comment. I'm just going to add some numbers ans a source to it.

If you're in the United States and are working as an actor, your income is closer to Minimum Wage than to the big names in the entertainment industry, with wages (not salaries, these people are paid by the hour) ranging from $7.75 up to $36.00, averaging at $15.29. We talk about the big names, but these are the people really being hit. Hollywood execs don't even want to pay these wages. They'd rather give you a month of wages in order to have access to your voice and face for all time. This is even worse when you factor in that your image might get big...imagine being a fresh face right out of acting college, going in for your first audition, and they say "We like you. We'll give you $3000 if you just enter our scanning booth and spend an hour saying nonsense lines." That pays your first month's rent (barely), but lo and behold, down the road, your likeness is earning the studio execs a cool billion, and you ain't getting a penny of that, because you signed a contract saying your likeness and voice could be used by them at no compensation for you for all time.

THAT is a big part of what this strike is about.

https://www.indeed.com/career/actor/salaries