What Are Residuals as Related to SAG Acting Jobs? (Showbiz Term of the Day)

🙂 The myth for young (naïve) aspiring actors is that coming to Hollywood, and especially joining SAG, guarantees them instant fame and a big million dollar movie deal. However, many SAG actors starve just like non-union actors.

One common perception repeated incessantly by actors over and over again is that the only way one can get into SAG is to get a role from a SAG signatory. Wrong! There is a “backdoor” approach to getting into SAG. One can join an affiliated association, such as AFTRA or Actor’s Equity Association, complete a full year of membership and, after obtaining a principle role for the affiliated association, can join SAG.

The common perception about SAG is that its card carrying members are handed huge roles and lots of wealth. What most fail to realize is that SAG is NOT an employer, but usually only works to keep the actor’s employer from dishing out unfair treatment to its members.

No SAG member shall work as an actor or make an agreement to do work as an actor for any producer who has not executed a basic minimum agreement with the Guild which is in full force and effect.

SAG offers Young Performersorientation meetings; a handbook containing detailed information to help young performers; an online database consisting of laws pertaining to young performers across the country, and many more resources for young actors and their parents.

It is quite refreshing and gladdening to know that actors continue to get paid some amount for parts they had played much earlier in their life.

Residual payments are very important part of the payment contracts for actors today in this age of DVD’s, Web Streaming and other auxiliary methods of income possible for a movie or a TV show long after its initial release. I wonder with so many ‘classics’ being released these days whether the original actors are getting whats due to them!!

Getting a SAG ensures you are deprived of your deserved income, and this is just one of the examples where they ensure your rights and interests are protected. This is certainly a reason why every actor should aspire to join SAG..

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Now, having been a member of Screen Actors’ Guild and having been non-union, I know both sides of the coin very, very well. So, what this segment’s all about is about the unions — there’s also another union called AFTRA. Okay. But primarily, I’m going to talk about Screen Actors’ Guild or SAG which you probably heard on TV, the academy awards and there’s the Screen Actors’ Guild awards on TV, et cetera. Now, I think every serious actor should strive to be SAG eventually — that’s the — the bar for professionalism.

If an extra is upgraded to a principle performer will the days he was payed as an extra count toward his residuals? example: he works 4 days as an extra and signs a Taft Hartly on the 5th day. Will those four days be counted into the residuals? Hope to hear an answer.

Thanks Debbie for the response. 🙂 I am surprised there isn’t more information online about this. LOL that email address isn’t a working one. They just make you stick something in there. However, I’m tuned into this forum.

Thanks again. Hope to learn some more info about this.

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Well, I’m living in Texas now but I would like to relocate to LA to go after serious acting jobs. I’m getting my degree, mostly because I don’t want to wait tables for the rest of my life. I really want to act. I do alot of it in Texas now, well mostly theatre. I would eventually like to do film as well. The thing that puzzles me is how should I go about doing that while working a decent job?

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