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Would you consider actors to be working class? (hexbear.net)
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Like on principle, I know that the writer’s and actor’s guild and union shit is all good. I don’t think all the success from a movie or show should go 100% to the company, but it still feels weird saying that a Hollywood actor is working class.

What do y’all think? Am I just being a dumbass?

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[–] 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it still feels weird saying that a Hollywood actor is working class.

The vast majority of actors are nameless extras that no one would recognize.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago*

    The vast majority of actors are nameless extras that no one but me would recognize.

    I see you, Margo Martindales, Philip Baker Halls, Jesse Heimans, and Erik Charles Nielsens of the world. You are all giants in my book, and you carry the production on your back like Atlas. Every extra is a hero, the set would be empty without you legends.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, this is the case for the vast majority of actors, artists, musicians, and other creative workers. We get it twisted up looking at the extremely small percentage of rich and famous ones; most are not only workers but very low income workers.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Celebrity culture wildly distorts people's perception of acting. I know someone who's like a semi-recurring tertiary character of some mid sitcom. They treat that as a major milestone in their acting career and it really is when most actors don't rise beyond extra or "lead" role in commercial everyone skips with adblock.

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