Mandy Moore says she’s gotten ’81-cent checks’ in residuals for her work on NBC hit This Is Us … amid SAG-AFTRA strike

Mandy Moore said she received residuals of just 81 cents at a time, illustrating the uphill battle artists are facing during SAG-AFTRA’s strike for better wages and working conditions.

Moore, 39, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter as she marched with her colleagues on Tuesday on the SAG-AFTRA picket line outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

“The remaining issue is a huge issue,” the Emmy-nominated actress told the outlet, noting that she’s been getting “very small checks of about 81 cents” for streaming residuals for her work on the hit series.

The Nashua, New Hampshire, resident added, “I spoke to my business manager who said he received a remnant of one cent and two cents.”

Moore, who played the role of Rebecca Pearson in 106 episodes of the NBC hit series from 2016 through 2022, explained how essential residuals are amid what can be a rocky road for entertainers.

“We’re in an incredibly fortunate position as working actors who’ve been on shows that have had tremendous success one way or another,” Moore told the outlet. ‘But many actors who were in our position years before us were able to live off residual flows or at least pay their bills.’

The streaming rights to the show, which also starred Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley, were snapped up by Hulu in May 2017 amid competition from Amazon and Netflix.

The deal gave the service joint digital rights to stream the series with its original network, NBC.

The SAG-AFTRA strike is aimed at better pay for actors, transparent streaming royalties and restrictions on the implementation of artificial intelligence.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher spoke of the urgency of the strike, which comes after the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) hit picket lines in May.

“It’s a very serious matter that affects thousands, if not millions, of people in this country and around the world,” Drescher, 65, said at a news conference Thursday amid stalled negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. AMPTP). ).

Drescher said the union had “no choice” but to hit the picket line amid unprecedented levels of lowballing and financial exploitation faced by actors under the current arrangement.

“We are the victims here,” she said. “We are falling victim to a very greedy entity.”

Moore played the role of Rebecca Pearson in 106 episodes of the hit NBC series from 2016 through 2022

The Nashua, New Hampshire resident added, “I spoke to my business manager who said he received a remainder for a penny and two cents”

Moore hit the picket line earlier Friday, where she was seen with This Is Us castmates Chrissy Metz and Jon Huertas

Moore hit the picket line earlier Friday, where she was seen with This Is Us castmates Metz and Jon Huertas. She called them “my forever family” in an accompanying Instagram Stories post.

Moore is one of the few artists to express frustrations with current working conditions, which they say are outdated, while critical numbers are shrouded in secrecy.

Actor Sean Gunn, who played Kirk Gleason in 137 episodes of Gilmore Girls from 2000-2007, explained to The cover on Sunday are frustrations over Netflix’s refusal to disclose the streaming numbers for that show and others they have on their platform.

He called the streaming giant’s reluctance to release official songs “utter nonsense” and “also unscrupulous,” used as a game to avoid paying artists their fair share of the remnants.

“You can bet that when a company says, ‘We’re keeping this information secret,’ it’s because they’re fooling someone,” Gunn said.

He added: “The old model was that when a show went into syndication, you got a little bit of money for all the viewings, for all the revenue that came in, and that’s totally changed.

“We see such a small percentage of that. Instead, that money is now going into bonuses for those CEOs and studio heads, and I just think it is [a] shame.’