The actors joined the writers on the picket lines this week as SAG-AFTRA called a strike for its members. Movie and television stars have used their high profile voices to call attention to the strike, and the demands that are not being met by the studios. One of these issues is residuals, and the lack of them in the age of streaming. Now, after Mandy Moore talked about her own tiny streaming residual checks from This Is Us, Ellen Pompeo called Netflix out for their own failings.
Moore was seen on the picket lines, striking with her fellow SAG-AFTRA members for a better contract when the union failed to reach a deal with the studios. She talked about her own tiny residual checks from streaming on her show This Is Us, drawing attention to the lack of compensation for streaming, even if you’re in a lead role on a hit show. She told The Hollywood Reporter that she sometimes saw payments that were "very tiny, like 81-cent checks." Her business manager had also seen some checks for only pennies, even though the show is popular amongst Hulu subscribers, as the actress explained:
