What was really going on with that viral quote about background performers forking over their images, forever, for one day’s pay?
that at one point, the studios requested consent to use background actors’ names, voices, likenesses, and biographies “with no additional compensation” and “in any in all media” forever and ever. Regardless of where the studios landed before the strike began, the virality of the quote is actually kind of delightful. That’s because it means that, for once—at least briefly—the world seems to care about extras, the often overlooked canary in the coal mine of technological shifts in Hollywood.
“There are some productions that respect background actors, and in others, we’re just kinda tossed aside even though we help create the vision of the movie or TV show,” Asucena Jimenez, an actor who makes about 90 percent of her income as an extra, told me., a place that will remind you of the unique challenges of funding one’s life in this way.
Note: Cadavers will not be nude, they will be covered in a sheet, and costumes will provide a tight nude colored modesty garment in order to appear nude.And no matter how many times that scene with that alien or cadaver appears in reruns or gets streamed, it’s unlikely the actor would get anything more than that initial payment. Most background actors don’t get residuals.
This has been true long before anyone was talking about A.I. And this is connected to why many background actors saw this day—when studios suggested owning their likenesses—coming. Background actors would be one of the first job categories to get hit by A.I., actor Devin Finley told me a few months ago, while I wasFinley had made a career move he knew would rub some the wrong way: He licensed his video twin out for reuse to an A.I. production company.
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