Kimiko Glenn is opening up about her Orange Is the New Black pay amid the continued SAG-AFTRA strike — and it’s beginning to sound like copper is the brand new inexperienced. (In different phrases, gurl acquired PENNIES as an alternative of {dollars}!)
As you’ve most likely heard, the Display screen Actors Guild AND the Writers Guild of America have gone on strike, shutting down Hollywood because the expertise each in entrance of and behind the digital camera advocate for honest pay and higher working circumstances. The most important challenge is the altering panorama within the wake of streaming and digital. Earlier than you assume all actors are too well-paid to complain, simply take heed to what the OITNB star really acquired paid regardless of dedicating YEARS of her life to the acclaimed streaming hit.
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Over the weekend, the 34-year-old shared a SHOCKING take a look at the sum of money she’s acquired in residual checks. The best way TV used to work, you’d receives a commission a specific amount to your work on the present, however the true cash was if the present was a HIT. As a result of each time it aired afterward, you bought paid a small quantity once more. So visitor appearances on Buddies and Seinfeld had been a a lot greater payday than, say, Veronica’s Closet, even at SAG minimums.
However residuals within the age of streaming don’t work the identical. In spite of everything, exhibits don’t “air” on streaming companies, they’re simply there on a regular basis, accessible to look at. So now, in concept, they’re primarily based on how a lot a given manufacturing is streamed… and boy, you’re not ready. While you consider OITNB, some phrases that come to thoughts most likely embody bingeable and extremely standard, proper? Heck, it was one among Netflix‘s first actually brand-defining originals. However in keeping with Kimiko, she’s solely acquired a complete of $27.30 in residuals for her work on the present this 12 months!
In a Saturday TikTok, she confirmed her “International Royalty Assertion” from SAG-AFTRA, jokingly exclaiming, “God, I’m about to be so wealthy!” earlier than revealed her web gross of below $30 as she screamed, “WHAT?” Watch the total clip (beneath):
@itskimiko
why #sagaftra is placing #sagaftrastrong #sagaftrastrike #sagstrike
♬ authentic sound – kimiko
That’s for each episode, all 12 months.
Customers of the video sharing app rapidly started commenting on the clip, one particularly joking that the test is “barely sufficient to pay for a Netflix subscription” — it’s really NOT sufficient. Keep in mind, that is $27 for the total 12 months!
That led Kimiko to observe up with one other TikTok answering among the confusion. She attested:
“Piggybacking on that Orange Is the New Black residual put up, I bear in mind loads of feedback again once I posted it that had been like, ‘guys, guys, guys, they acquired paid up entrance.’ To begin with, whether or not or not we acquired paid up entrance, that s**t lives — my tits stay on in perpetuity. I should receives a commission for as many f**king streams as that s**t will get.”
Preach it, gurl!
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However she additionally defined that the upfront pay was NOT the tens of millions individuals assume. For the extraordinarily lengthy hours that go into filming a TV present they really acquired little or no, a lot in order that they needed to maintain their day jobs:
“Second of all, we didn’t receives a commission very nicely. Ever. And once I say, ‘Didn’t receives a commission very nicely,’ you’ll die. Folks had been bartenders nonetheless. Folks had their second jobs nonetheless. They had been f**king well-known as s**t, like, internationally well-known, couldn’t go outdoors, however needed to maintain their second jobs as a result of they couldn’t afford to not. We couldn’t afford cabs to set!”
DAMN! That’s actually stunning stuff… OITNB was significantly, like, crème de la crème for streaming at its peak! For the actors on the present to have wanted a second job simply to afford to maintain the lights on is fairly wild. And naturally now they want first AND second jobs as a result of $27/12 months could as nicely be NOTHING. Watch her full clip (beneath):
@itskimiko
@The New Yorker launched an article the opposite day describing lots of our forged’s expertise on #orangeisthenewblack and the small print will astound you. go to my IG for the hyperlink ???????? #sagaftra #sagaftrastrike #sagstrike #sagaftrastrong
♬ authentic sound – kimiko
Kimiko didn’t spill on which stars precisely she was referring to, however the forged was fairly stacked — Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne, and extra. We’re guessing it was all the brand new actors, those who hadn’t accomplished stuff earlier than Netflix, who needed to work different jobs. Keep in mind, not each actor is a film star! There are dozens, if not tons of of actors, in each present and film. Most are simply working schlubs making an attempt to get by. They usually can’t with these wages!
She added in a ultimate observe up that actuality is “so not” what it appears on the luxurious awards exhibits when everyone seems to be of their finest apparel, and that “most actors have a tough time” even affording to go to these! Watch (beneath):
@itskimiko
one other thought on the #sagstrike @SAG-AFTRA #sagaftra #sagaftrastrike #sagaftrastrong #orangeisthenewblack
♬ authentic sound – kimiko
The star additionally opened up in a New Yorker profile final week about how the entire state of affairs is “simply so unhappy.”
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[Image via Netflix/Kimiko Glenn/TikTok.]
