7NEWS: Aussie Netflix actor Luke Cook reveals shockingly low pay as SAG-AFRA strike shuts down Hollywood
“I am not a millionaire,” Cook said in a TikTok on Friday, when about 160,000 Hollywood actors officially went on strike after failing to reach a deal with Hollywood’s biggest studios.“Ninety-five per cent of the actors in cannot make a living from acting, they’ve got to have side hustles. I am one of those actors.
“The actors that you’re thinking of, who are the millionaires, are usually series regulars or big A-listers in big movies,” Cook said. For Dollface, Cook said his image was used on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard but he wasn’t paid a cent for it.“I got paid per episode, which is two weeks of work for $US7500. Then it’s taxed, then a manager takes 10 per cent, an agent takes 10 per cent and then a lawyer takes five per cent.”
And while they are “very wealthy” and “very talented people”, he said the strike was about “people like me, who need to be paid more for the work that they do, and let them have a portion of the profits that these streamers and these big companies are bringing in.
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