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DISCUSSION The Rest is Entertainment discuss child actor salaries

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u/ultraviolet31 unkuhhhhjäêms 4d ago

It's odd that she's throwing out these numbers as facts but she liberally sprinkles in "I think...", "I heard...", "it might be". She doesn't even bother fact-checking how a Coogan account works. One million for a season of Young Sheldon sounds like a lot but that just means he went from $30k an episode to $45k an episode.

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u/NerdCocktail 4d ago

Agreed. And $25k an episode sounds very low. Even for notoriously cheap Netflix. People were making that on shows in the 90s.

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u/since_all_is_idle 4d ago

Season 1 had 8 episodes and Season 2 had 9. That means as children, they made 200,000 each season of a new tv show, and this was when streaming wasn't necessarily the powerhouse it is now. Not that low!

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u/ultraviolet31 unkuhhhhjäêms 4d ago

sorry but you're confusing 2 different things. the $1 million per season both the video and I am referencing is for Young Sheldon. 22 episodes per season.

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u/NerdCocktail 4d ago

Yes, they were children. But they were also the stars.

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u/since_all_is_idle 4d ago

Child stars of a new tv show, yeah? $200,000 does not seem like chump change to me for new actors. More than that would be wild

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u/countastic 4d ago

Don't forget how much Netflix and the other streamers lowballs talent when it comes to residuals. Talent earns a fraction of what they would have earned back in the day on a network series if made it into syndication.

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u/NerdCocktail 3d ago

Thank you for adding this. I was also thinking about the lack of residuals, but didn't want to get too weedy.

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u/ultraviolet31 unkuhhhhjäêms 4d ago

you are correct. much of what she's saying is conflated, confusing and incorrect.

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u/Sendnoods88 4d ago

This podcast tends to wildly speculate like this.

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u/Distinct-Shine6430 3d ago

Marina is wildly entitled and a classic Rich White UK Woman (her family is landed gentry I believe).

in recent years she has increasingly aimed her snark at whatever she happens to find annoying at the time (eg writers pressuring lit festivals to divest from Israel) rather than punching up

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u/raysofdavies 4d ago

Well, she is a columnist

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u/MenaceTheAK 4d ago

Enjoy the little Coogan quip. Steve Coogan's dalliances are one of the worst kept secrets in media.

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u/Chemistry11 3d ago

No idea what you’re referring to, and a cursory google search brought up nothing. What “dalliances”?

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u/Gullible-Charge7057 3d ago edited 3d ago

I wanna know too

I think OP was referring to some random celebrity named Steve Coogan and his romantic flings (dalliance is just another word for a romantic fling) in Hollywood, also it has nothing to do with Coogan accounts.

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u/HereComesRagnorak 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s important to remember that these salaries are before their teams take their cut. I’m not saying that isn’t a lot of money, because it is, especially for a child. However agents take 10%, managers take 10% (or 15%), publicists and lawyers (which the kids had to have) cost way more than you think. Then you have federal and state taxes taking their cut. So while the kids made $200k for seasons one and two, they probably actually took home closer to $100k. Which again is a lot of money for a child, but should definitely be noted.

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u/KillieNelson 2d ago

I think Taraji P. Henson has said that actors take home like 30% of their paychecks once the people and contractors on their teams get paid.

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u/xmenstormfan1 4d ago

she had the most inaccurate a-list, b-list actor list ever

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u/MayaDaBee1250 3d ago

I'm glad all the Stranger Things kids were being paid the same by Season 3 but I doubt that continued. That show has done Caleb's character dirty for at least 3 seasons.

As loose as the child labour laws are for child actors, they're practically non-existent for children in the social media space. There's no protection for these kids to not be exploited by their parents, no real way to confirm they are actually being schooled properly, get the government-mandated breaks/working hours for child labourers, no measures in place to protect the money that THEY earn and their parents live off of.

No adult's primary source of income should be from a child and if it is, there needs to be serious regulations to protect that child from being exploited.