The actress spoke out while on the picket line as part of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
is one of the most beloved television shows of recent memory, one of its stars is opening up about how much she makes from streaming residuals checks—and, um, it’s not as much money as you might think.
In fact, it is literally pennies, Mandy Moore—who played lead character Rebecca Pearson on the show from 2016 to 2022—said while picketing outside Disney in Burbank, California as part of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Per—despite the Emmy-winning series being one of the most popular TV shows in the last seven years,” the outlet reports. about the importance of the strike, telling the outlet “The residual issue is a huge issue.
The residual checks were miniscule, Moore said, telling the outlet they were “very tiny, like 81-cent checks” from Hulu, which acquired“I was talking with my business manager who said he’s received a residual for a penny and two pennies,” she said.Scandal . She said she too had been making literal pennies since Netflix obtained the show’s streaming rights. “If you are someone who has been fortunate enough in our positions to do 120-plus episodes of a successful show in previous years—10, 15, 20 years ago—that re-airing would be the thing that could sustain you on years where I did this smaller project or I wanted to go do a play or you have kids and you have a family to provide for,” Lowes said. “And that’s just not a reality anymore.
The SAG-AFTRA strike comes on the heels of the Writer’s Guild of America strike and went into effect last week after the organization failed to reach an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers , the trade association that represents more than 350 major studios and streaming giants,
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