Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Nudity required, no pay - the joys of actor exploitation

I guess people who come from families with money and/or have lucrative financial-services industry jobs just don't believe in nasty words like "exploitation" - I learned that first from Edward Einhorn. Although as far as I know he never expected actors to get naked for no pay.

Gabby at "Nudity Required, No Pay" shares this charming tidbit on her blog:

DAY 2
Feature Film
NON-UNION
NO PAY

Producer: Laura XXXXX
Director: Andrew XXXXX
Casting Director:Laura XXXXX
Interview: late January
Shoot/Start Date: February 15
Location: New York

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY TEL: 732-XXX-XXXX

THERE IS NUDITY IN THIS PROJECT.

[ LAURA ]
Lead - Female, 20s - plagued by voices in her head, one of very few survivors of the apocalypse. She is hunted by the giant robots and must find a way to stop the invasion. Nudity, one back-lit love scene.

[ DR. MASCHWITZ ]
Female, 40s-60s - Laura's psychiatrist, secretly trying to protect Laura from the robots.

[ NEIL ]
Male, 30s-40s - a crazy drunk, former Special Forces op. Knows way more about the invasion than he should.

Thanks to Anonymous for tipping us off to this masterpiece where our heroine, poor, haunted, schitzo Laura, will probably be forced to make back-lit naked "love" to Neil the crazy drunk. It is very fortunate, however, that her psychiatrist is one of the "very few survivors" of the apocalypse. I mean - what are the odds?


What Gabby DOESN'T know is that the director of this movie is so unashamed of exploiting actors that he brags about how many he can get to exploit on his web site:
We put a notice on Actor's Access for a couple roles in Day 2. We're starting to get the pile o' submissions one gets for that. Remember, we're non-SAG, no pay. Some nudity.


It's thanks to people like this that unions are so necessary. Too bad some of the suckers actors he's managed to get for his shitty Star Wars/Bladerunner/Transformers ripoff movies worked for him in defiance of their unions. Way to show solidarity, assholes.