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Stephen Ford used a paltry paycheck to elucidate why he’s picketing for higher pay in the course of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
“Dwelling the nice life on these teen wolf residuals,” the actor, 33, tweeted on Saturday, August 12, alongside a photograph of his residual verify, which had been despatched to him three months prior. The actor earns 5 cents each time a rerun of an episode of the MTV collection through which he appeared airs.
Ford was credited (as Stephen Lunsford) in 9 episodes throughout season 2 of Teen Wolf for his function as Matt Daehler. He additionally appeared in TV reveals together with Non-public Apply, Switched at Delivery, Victorious, Zoey 101, Determined Housewives and Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. Ford has since pivoted to directing films together with Kiru.
SAG-AFTRA formally initiated a strike final month after failing to achieve an settlement on contract phrases with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers. (The AMPTP represents networks, studios and streamers like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Common, Paramount and Sony.)
Ford will not be the one actor who has shared their pay stubs to bolster the case union members are making for higher pay. William Stanford Davis, who performs Mr. Johnson on Abbott Elementary, beforehand took to social media to point out his $0.05 paycheck from an undisclosed TV present.
“I’ve been a display actor for 35 years. I’ve been within the guild about 32 years and I’ll let this communicate for itself,” Davis, 72, stated in a July Instagram video. “You see that? Are you able to consider that? That’s [five] cents,” he added. “The postage, the paper, all the pieces prices greater than that. That’s what they consider us as actors. This is the reason we’re on strike for higher wages, for higher residuals [and] for a bit of the subscription and to not give in to AI.”
Mandy Moore revealed she acquired checks for pennies following reruns of her Emmy-nominated drama, This Is Us.
“Ours is a fickle trade and in my 20+ years of being a performer, my profession has ebbed and flowed. I’ve had very lean years the place I couldn’t get a job and people are exactly the moments when in years previous, actors might depend on residuals from their previous work to assist them get by,” Moore, 39, wrote through her Instagram in July. “The world and enterprise have modified and I’m hoping we will discover a significant answer transferring ahead.”
She added: “The trickle-down impact felt throughout so many industries is already devastating. I’m one particular person — a tiny a part of our guild — and whereas I’m completely happy to make use of no matter platform my previous jobs have given me to talk to points affecting my fellow @sagaftra household, I do know my expertise is my very own. Right here’s hoping we get a good contract quickly so we will get again to doing the roles all of us love and miss a lot.”
