“People started to get disgruntled because they realized they weren't making the kind of money that they thought they should be making for a show that was such a huge hit,” he explains. They were being paid, some of them, the SAG minimum fee.”Īt first, Schulman says the actors were willing to go along with the system. And yet, some of them were still working second jobs. … It was this creative, progressive breakthrough and they were overnight famous. “Fans would be chasing them down the subway platform asking for pictures. That overnight success turned into a big break for actors. Netflix splashed onto the original content scene in 2013 with “Orange” and its political thriller “House of Cards,” which as Schulman describes, helped the platform enter the realm of prestige TV. And given how successful the show was, what a phenomenon it was, how it helped build Netflix as a brand that created its own streaming content, they just don't feel they were ever paid in a commensurate way,” Schulman tells KCRW. … In the years since, they are looking back and realizing that they are getting these $20 residual checks. “These are people who are really a major presence on the show. Schulman interviewed 10 actors from the Netflix series, including Glenn. The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman wrote that “Orange is the New Black” is a case study for what’s at stake in the SAG-AFTRA strike. In a recent TikTok, Kimiko Glenn (who played the talkative idealist Brook Soso) shares that her residuals were worth cents, and fellow actors worked second jobs to survive. But when a show is released on streaming platforms, there is no set standard for calculating residuals.Ĭast members from the hit Netflix show “Orange is the New Black” have spent years speaking out - on social media - about the low pay. Traditionally, when a show re-airs on TV, an actor gets a small amount of money for their work. Residuals are one of the issues at the center of the SAG-AFTRA strike hitting Hollywood.
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