With not all actors earning as much as Tom Cruise or Scarlett Johansson, and the July 14 strike in Hollywood has left them out of work, some artists are turning to sites like Cameo to monetize video signings.
This sector, which had greatly benefited from the covid, is experiencing a new recovery thanks to this strike. According to CNN Business, 2,400 American actors have registered on the site or have reactivated their Cameo account since the start of the strike. Starting with the influential Fran Drescher, the former nanny from hell and president of the actors union SAG-AFTRA.
Not everyone is rich and famous
“The vast majority [des acteurs] “They’re just not rich or famous,” Cameo CEO Steven Galanis told CNN Business. “A service like Cameo is possibly the best way for a lot of them to bridge the gap.”
The actors earn between 5 and 25,000 dollars, the Cameo boss also specifies. We ran into second-rate actors, a lot of old glories and many small-screen stars. Like Fran Drescher, who sells a personalized video for $1,500, or Eric Braeden, star of flames of loveDean Norris (breaking bad), Robert Maschio (Scrub), or Brian Cox (Succession). Some prominent actors are also included, such as Elijah Wood or David Arquette.
Marriage proposals, advice, congratulatory messages, birthdays, the stars agree to all kinds of requests, in a very wide range of prices – between 1 and 1,500 dollars – obviously linked to the notoriety of the actor.
Less than $26,500 a year
Following in the footsteps of the scriptwriters, who began their strike on May 2, the actors went on strike on July 14, 2023. “It’s a historic moment,” Fran Drescher then launched. Actors and screenwriters are demanding in particular an increase in their remuneration. “There have to be changes in the contracts, because the business model [dans l’industrie du cinéma] “It has changed enormously”, estimates Fran Drescher, according to whom 86% of the members of the SAG-AFTRA unions, which represent 160,000 actors and professionals from the small and big screen, do not reach the income threshold of 26,500 per year. real world, it’s a part-time job,” she adds, questioned on CNN.
The joint mobilization of scriptwriters and actors marks for the first time in 63 years. The claims of these they are substantially the same than those of their fellow authors: the setting of minimum income, the collection of residual rights for each use of their works in streaming, and Guarantees regarding the use of artificial intelligence. (AI), to prevent the latter from cloning your voice and image.
Source: BFM TV
