TIL the reason half the original Power Rangers left was the show was NON UNION & paid them almost nothing even after raging success (!!!)
They asked for unionization & better contracts & the show refused
Mega popular, $1B in merch & they wouldn't even give the actors union *minimum* pay. Appalling
I wasn't a fan per se but seeing an Asian superhero on TV did matter to me
Turns out they were hiring super young actors & treating them horribly
Massive safety violations, homophobia, & paying minimum wage or less. One of the actors was sleeping in his car -- like wtaf
Yep, the actors apparently had no idea how big the show even was until they did an event at Universal that slowed the 101 to a crawl for half a day. When they asked for real money they were replaced.
So many people were working for low wages or "experience."
IIRC, those actors were hired unagented, so likely they signed contracts that screwed them. I could go on for hours about Reaganism and working in Hollywood in the 90s, but I've got other commitments 😄
yuppppppp. And YOUNG, too, all playing teens -- it's such classic exploitation
gosh I have so many hours of feelings about the whole long history of exploiting people's dreams in Hollywood and why we needed a union so desperately in the first place but same 🤣
they were done so dirty. and I remember how TV Guide had put it to a reader asking why they'd left, which sounds absolutely gross now that I also know this information.
Yeah, I feel like whoever wrote that TV Guide reply needs to, uh, really think about why they replied that the actors "asked for too much money" when all that was going on. (/rhetorical)
Right?? People see "actors want more $" & think they're making millions and they want double millions
Instead they were making literally less than they would at MacDonald's & the ridiculous hours they were working the pay was probably even illegal? Like, manipulative sweatshop acting, I'm incensed
Hi, PR Voice actor with multiple seasons under my belt (Monsters).
(Go ahead, ask about the pay rate for a 4 hour session that leave one's voice so rekt I cant do a corporate gig for a week after)
AoNZ, where it was filmed for 20+ years is a non-union market..Thats the #1 reason they filmed here.. we don't have an actors union.. we have a 'guild', which has zero actual bargaining power..
eh.. it is what it is.. With the exchange rate, they get pro voices for around 1/3 of what an actual union voice in the US would cost them.
4 hour sessions of this ..
