• BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

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      4 months ago

      farscape, than sg1, and then she kinda disappeared, im guessing it was hard to find roles at her age, or she dint have any nepo connections. and then ORIGINALs was her other show.

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        4 months ago

        She did a lot of voice acting roles in that interim, presumably while raising her kids.

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      4 months ago

      Nobody should care if she’s not on A-tier actor list anyway. That is Disney and this is Star Wars. Not some indie movie from a small studio.

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    4 months ago

    I was so happy that Claudia Black was in Star Wars. But unless they had something big planned for season 2, she didn’t get to do a lot. She was only in the last few episodes.

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    4 months ago

    Ah come on, a small independent studio like Disney can’t possibly be expected to pay a living wage. I guess she just doesn’t love the artform enough, and turns her nose up at the glorious exposure…

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      4 months ago

      The c-suite execs making the payments aren’t anywhere near the poverty line either.

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        4 months ago

        Perhaps none of them should be this far above the poverty line? (Big disclaimer, I didn’t read the article.)

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      Did you read the article? It’s obvious what her needs were (see no parenthesis needed), they didn’t meet them so she bowed out. Should she take a deal that’s bad for her because in your mind she doesn’t “need” it?

      That’s why you got downvoted.

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      4 months ago

      would you take any job offered as long as it’s above the poverty line, or do you have compensation standards based on the job market and your experience?

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          The solution is not to drag everyone down. Teachers deserve to get paid more but their pay comes mostly from local property taxes instead of a trillion dollar company that owns a third of all media.

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          4 months ago

          This is a relative privation argument. Just because other people are less privileged than Claudia Black doesn’t mean she should be a Disney doormat.