Acting : How Actors With No Leverage Get Screwed in TV Contracts by Richard "RB" Botto

This is the best part of STAGE 32 . . . an opportunity for members to share advice and comments that benefit us all.

Well if you are doing what you love... and are only making 13k a week. Like Kudrow in Friends. Well then maybe by the end you can make a mill an episode, like she did... Not a bad weeks pay even at 80 hrs a week.

I'm very conflicted over the story. For someone like me (non actor) it's hard not to get a little dizzy at the thought of $15K an episode. But I guess when you're on the way up the ladder those bumps and percentages can represent frustratingly large sums. Then you have to consider the state of the industry, is it squeezing actors because everybody is getting squeezed? But ultimately the issue of having no leverage rings in my ears. Kudrow is an interesting example, reading the other article on the site trending about her legal case describes how the Friends cast effectively unionised to protect one another.