Tommy Dorfman Reveals She Earned $29,000 — Before Fees — for Season 1 of Netflix’s ’13 Reasons Why’
usmagazine.comTommy Dorfman did not hold back about the low wage she received for season 1 of 13 Reasons Why — even as the series turned into a cultural phenomenon.“My earnings for the entire first season of 13 reasons why were $29,953.24 prior to agency and manager fees (20%) and taxes.
8 episodes over six months,” Dorfman, 31, wrote via Threads on Monday, July 25.She continued: “I did all of the promo and had KEY ART for this show, flew round trip from NYC to SF to shoot for every episode, was kept for days without pay/working.
I barely qualified for insurance. within the first 28 days of release, the show’s season 1 garnered a total of 476 million view hours.
this is why we strike. @sagaftra.”Dorfman rose to fame playing high school student Ryan Shaver in three seasons of the hit Netflix show, which was based on a harrowing novel about teenage suicide written by Jay Asher.13 Reasons Why, which ran from 2017 to 2020, revolved around high school kids dealing with the aftermath of a fellow student’s death by suicide.
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