| I agree with what you've said here, except the last part that film and tv work is compensated handsomely for the extra work before shooting day. Often this is not true. If you're a lead or a star or a regular, yes. But if you're working on a day to day contract, as many actors are, or on a low budget or indie film, you are often not being handsomely compensated, especially when you consider the free work put into auditioning, and the extra 10-25% taken off your salary (after the 30% of taxes are taken out) to pay reps that "helped" get the job, and consider that even if the day rate seems good (which on low budget or indie projects it often is not), it is not something you're getting every day and has to be stretched over days or weeks without any pay (plus the fact that to be available for acting work it's very difficult to hold another regular non-acting job because you aren't then always available to audition let alone take the 1 day job or even more the 6 day or 10 day job etc when you're cast). Those actors at that rate and on those projects are also expected to come prepared and off-book, and even moreso because no one wants to take more time for them or have them screw up anything in the scene... for the leads, everyone has patience for that kind of thing. |
