Mandy Moore Reveals ‘This Is Us’ Streaming Residuals Checks Are Literal Pennies

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Mandy Moore might be a household name, but that doesn’t mean she’s making a ton of money when fans stream her past work.“The residual issue is a huge issue,” Moore, 39, told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, July 18, while joining the Disney picket line in Burbank, California, in support of the SAG-AFTRA strike. “We’re in incredibly fortunate positions as working actors having been on shows that found tremendous success in one way or another … but many actors in our position for years before us were able to live off of residuals or at least pay their bills.”The This Is Us alum — who played Rebecca Pearson on the NBC drama from 2016 to 2022 — revealed that she received “very tiny, like, 81-cent checks” from the streaming residuals for the Emmy-winning series.“I was talking with my business manager who said he’s received a residual for a penny and two pennies,” Moore told the outlet.In May 2017, Hulu acquired the streaming rights for This Is Us, beating out Netflix and Amazon.

Hulu has since had co-exclusive rights to any digital rollout of the drama along with NBC, which is where the show initially aired.The current SAG-AFTRA strike — which comes amid the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) strike — is focused in part on getting actors fair wages, transparency for streaming residuals and guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in media.SAG president, Fran Drescher, confirmed on Thursday, July 13, that the union, which is made up of more than 160,000 TV and movie stars, would be striking alongside WGA, which began its call for action in May.“It’s a very serious thing that impacts thousands, if not millions of people all across this country and around the world,” Drescher, 65, said in a press conference after the