[Noah Kadner] "These days it's going to be hard to find a SAG actor willing to work without a contract."
Actually, I'm not sure if it is the economy, SAG political climate, the kinds of projects that are going on, or just the particular neck o' the woods that we are in.... but right now it seems especially easy to get SAG actors to work outside of union jurisdiction... at least around here.
To make it clear, we don't blatantly
ask them to work outside SAG jurisdiction, and I don't overtly encourage my fellow union brothers and sisters to scab... we'll just put out casting calls or calls to the agents we use and they know ahead of time it's a non-union gig. Still, we get plenty of auditionees come in or headshots submitted from people that I
know are union... sometimes those actors will just "neglect" to mention they are SAG, sometimes they will be upfront and say "I'm union and I know this is a non-union shoot... but I don't care, I want the gig."
Without actually counting it up, I'm betting in the last three or four weeks here we've had probably a half dozen or more instances where we have used SAG talent, and only
one of those was on an actual SAG-signatory project.
It would probably behoove any producer counting nickles just to
ask the talent what they are willing to do.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
