Casting Catch

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "kathye_c <kechelsen at a...>"
<kechelsen at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
> <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > > The Actor's Equity Union stepped in for Daniel Radcliffe and 
> forced Warner to pay him on a scale more consistent with the hit 
> status of the movie. I think they pushed his salary up from 
> substantial 5 figures to low 7 figures. Since this was the Union, I'm 
> guessing they saw UK£2,000,000 as minimum wage under the 
> circumstance. <<


> 
> Sorry, but I think you must mean the Screen Actor's Guild.  Actor's 
> Equity is the THEATRE Actor's union, and would have no say in the 
> salaries on a film.
> 
> Kathy


boy_mn:
Not disputing you at all. The best I can recall the article, which
should still be on the internet, didn't refer to it as 'Actor's Equity
Union'; it used the word in lower case 'equity' as in 'equity stepped
in'. Again, based on my recall. I assume that would mean Actor's
Equity. Remember too that this is Britain. I'm not sure if it's
different there.

I don't think you have to belong to multiple unions. For example,
Jonny Carson formerly of 'The Tonight Show', performed his entire
career as a member of the magician's union. Again, I don't know the
details of how actor unions work in Britain.

But you point is well made and well taken.

bboy_mn