Let’s See How Progressive the A-Listers Will Get
Peter Coyote, the actor who played a high-powered lawyer in Erin Brockovich and the scientist after E.T., made this interesting suggestion the other day:
Actor Peter Coyote has suggested that stars who earn millions of dollars for their performances in movies ought to share the wealth with established character actors, who have seen their earnings rolled back as the stars’ skyrocket. Coyote, best known for his role as the scientist trying to track down E.T., suggests that the Screen Actors Guild ought to call upon leading actors to kick back “a modest amount, say on salaries over $6 million,” to lift the pay of actors they are working with — if producers act similarly. Such a move, he wrote in an open letter to lead actors, “would provide the ancillary benefit of insuring that you consistently play opposite actors of the highest caliber.” Coyote also added that “such a gesture would buttress your peers who cannot win such gains for themselves except by sabotaging the entire industry with a strike,” which also prevents lead actors from working.
In other words, he wants to rob from the rich to give to the poor - in this case, “poor” being, I guess, actors who earn less than $6 million a movie.
Hollywood’s a liberal place. Big movie stars shouldn’t have any problem with such a “progressive” idea. Right?
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