Adam Bartley

Adam Bartley Instagram – Unprecedented times. Over the past 14 years I’ve experienced, first hand, the slow disintegration of the working class, blue collar acting career. It started with agents and managers having to make terribly uncomfortable phone calls to their clients to tell them “you got the job!… but sorry they’ll only pay ____. If you don’t take it, someone else will.” Then one day you find out that your salary included future /advanced residual payments essentially erasing your opportunity to get by when the work is dry. “Non-negotiable!”…they said. Then you find out years later that the streaming networks pay you almost nothing in residuals at all because of the current deal in place! Your hard work being seen all over the world for the occasional $.19 Check in the mail. And now AI threatens to eliminate thousands upon thousands of jobs to help the corporate giants make those 4th quarter gains and please the shareholders. They’ve chipped and chipped away at us year after year as we just took it and hoped our unions would one day fight for us. Many of us, like myself, spent ungodly amounts of money to train at our craft at a college/ university only to carry that debt for decades. Some actors you are watching right now still haven’t been able to afford to pay it off let alone just get by. The gauntlet we all go through to even get an opportunity to work in this business is more terrifying than most of you could stomach. Those that make it have climbed the steepest of mountains. We deserve to be paid fairly and protected so we can continue to deliver our best work for you all and follow our crazy dreams with some stability and a modicum of comfort in an otherwise unstable, erratic, uncertain profession. I humbly ask you all for your support. There are plenty of funds to donate to if you’re inclined. @sagaftrafound A simple internet search will guide you there. But most importantly, spread the good word. Thank you. #sagaftrastrong #sagaftrastrike #wgastrong #wgastrike @sagaftra @sagaftrastrikeunite #solidarity | Posted on 29/Jul/2023 01:48:09