[ SECRET POST #6036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6036 ⌋

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Re: Actors' strike

[(Anonymous)]

Not an actor or anything related, but a typical 9-5 job with lower but steady pay doesn't work for most actors, because there's just not enough movies/shows/etc for everybody to work all the time and also the work schedules they do have when they are working can be nuts, like start at 2 am, stand in artificial rain until sunset, repeat for two weeks, get foot rot, go back to rerecord six lines two months later while actively working on something else.

And then not work for a year.

So actors get paid a few cents every time a show gets rebroadcast, so they have something to live on (or at least pay for gas or groceries) while busing tables or driving an Uber or whatever, and maybe half a cent for every fifty dvds or vhs that sold if they were enough of a big name to get a cut of merch and stuff.

Or at least, they used to get paid that way.

Streaming changed reimbursement rates so those tiny residual payments are lower and don't kick in until a show has run for a couple seasons, because, Netflix et al argued, they were a new business model and not profitable but eventually it would be better for actors and writers to work with them than traditional studios, for... reasons. And dvds are dinosaurs and Netflix mostly doesn't make them for shows unless another studio that still releases them is also involved.

And if streamers cancel shows before a certain number of seasons, and pull them so they seasons that were filmed are only available for a year or whatever, that residual payment money goes from "groceries and gas for a couple weeks" to "maybe you can buy the occasional hotdog, and not a good one."

Also most actors are not rolling in money, and one of the proposed contract revisions was to pay background actors for one day of work, 3d scan them, get a voiceprint, and use their likeness and voice for eternity with no further work or residual payments.

Which seems really dumb even from a business standpoint to me because where are new big name actors going to come from if they can't work their way up from bit parts anymore?

Except my guess is current (and former, dead, no longer able to withdraw their labor) big name actors would also just be scanned and their digital replicas would star in everything but the occasional rich talentless douchebag's vanity project where the novelty of a real human acting would make up for the bit where all the rich "pay to play" "actors" can't actually act for shit.