‘Orange Is The New Black’ cast claim they never received fair compensation from Netflix

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Orange Is The New Black have claimed that they never received fair compensation from Netflix while appearing in the show.Released in 2013, the series initially followed Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) as she’s sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security women’s prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money.In a new interview with The New Yorker, the cast of the Emmy-winning series have alleged that they were paid a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) minimum wage of less than $900 (£690) per episode to appear in the show.Among those to appear in the article were Kimiko Glenn, Emma Myles, Beth Dover, Alysia Reiner, Diane Guerrero, Taryn Manning and Lea DeLaria, with Dover saying: “It actually COST me money to be in Season 3 and 4 since I was cast local hire and had to fly myself out, etc,” Dover added.“But I was so excited for the opportunity to be on a show I loved so I took the hit.

It’s maddening.”She added: “They’re telling us, ‘Oh, we can’t pay you this much, because we’re pinching pennies’.“But then Netflix is telling their shareholders that they’re making more than they’ve ever made.

We have not been fairly compensated by any stretch of the imagination.”“So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn added.Myles, who appeared in six of the show’s seven seasons, added: “The first thing we say to each other when we see each other, is, like, ‘Yeah, it’s really fucked up — all my residuals are gone!’“When you’re a kid, you have this idea: once I’m on something that people actually see, I’ll be rich, and I’ll have a house that has a bathtub.