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kleinbl00  ·  3804 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Kurt Vonnegut's best works?

Keep in mind: If you're an actor that gets a movie, a recurring role in a series and a handful of commercials, you're having a great year.

The feature is 3-4 weeks of 5-day weeks. That's $20k.

The series is maybe 2 weeks. That's $10k.

The commercials are a day each. That's $4k.

You're killing it and you're making $34k before taxes in the place where housing is the most expensive in the United States. You're also having a hard time keeping your table-waiting job because that feature blew a big old hole in your other gig.

A DGA director might get $10k for a commercial.. but he might only get two commercials a year.

Welcome to Hollywood.

(BTW - that $859 a day is for movies like Transformers. Movies like Primer? $100 a day.)