What if auditions are work that should be compensated? MJSchulman considers labor unrest in Hollywood, and the group of actors arguing for audition pay.
titled “Audition Pay: The Biggest Secret That Shouldn’t Be a Secret,” the actor Shaan Sharma wrote, “The current scale day rate is $1,082, so for every audition you have but where you didn’t book the job, you’re owed $541.” This, he calculated, would amount to “hundreds of millions of dollars of additional earnings in performers’ pockets every single year.” If few people file for audition pay, Sharma figured, that’s only because they didn’t realize they were owed it or feared retaliation.
The “Auditions Are Work” group, however, says that self-tapes have tilted auditions into something akin to a lottery. When casting people are in a room, they can see maybe thirty to fifty people in a day. When they’re getting self-tapes, they can easily solicit a hundred to five hundred submissions per role, meaning that the chances of getting a given role are vanishingly small. “Everyone’s doing more labor for a smaller chance of actually being employed than ever,” the actor Thomas Ochoa said.
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