In a TikTok video posted last week, ‘Abbott Elementary’ actor William Stanford Davis held up a residual check he received in May. It paid him 3 cents. Davis says his wages haven’t increased “at all” in his multiple decades as a SAG member.
"They ... had to keep their second jobs because they couldn’t afford to not," Kimiko Glenn, who appeared in more than 40 episodes of Netflix’s hit series “Orange Is the New Black,” said in a viral TikTok video.
SAG-AFTRA members this month joined Writers Guild of America members, who began striking in May. Both guilds are demanding that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, a trade association that bargains on behalf of studios, television networks and streaming platforms, provide more equitable pay, with a focus on enhancing residuals.
joking about her shock at learning she had made only $27.30 in residuals after she panned down a foreign royalty statement that listed dozens of episodes that contributed to her pay., Glenn said that although the actors are paid for their work up front, they deserve to earn revenue for every stream, because their image will live on in perpetuity. But for her and her"Orange Is the New Black" colleagues, she said, even the initial pay was poor.
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