Jason Earles reveals Disney gave him worst deal of life
Jason Earles, greatest identified for enjoying Jackson on Hannah Montana, has opened up about his tough expertise working with Disney.
The actor mentioned that the pay appeared good at first, however the best way his contract was arrange meant he missed out on lots of more money from reruns and royalties.
Whereas talking on ‘Evening College’ podcast, Jason shared: “This is the reality of the situation. They are really good-paying jobs. Before being on ‘Hannah’, I was an extra, a stand-in and a substitute teacher, and being on ‘Hannah’ paid significantly more than those jobs. That being said, when ‘Hannah’ was on, the contract was before SAG and AFTRA merged, so it was an AFTRA basic cable agreement.
“So, due to that, that’s just like the worst tv contract that you may be underneath.
“One of the ways you make your money is through residuals. So if they air the episode a bunch of times, you make money on the back side.
“For ‘Hannah’, as a result of it was that settlement, no matter they pay you above scale, they’ll credit score again in your residuals.
“Let’s for easy numbers, say that scale as a series regular is $5,000 an episode. And then, because you’re whatever, you sign your deal and they pay you $10,000 an episode.
“So what occurs is, they pay you $10,000, they air the episode, and the primary $5,000 of residuals it is best to have gotten, they preserve as a result of they paid you upscale.
“The double whammy was, at the time, usually a reuse, is that they aired it once, and it counts as one.
“The after settlement mentioned that if the episode was aired at midday, there was a full 24 hours to air as many occasions as they needed, and it counted as one use. So I received f***.
“You’re getting double d***.”
Nevertheless, even with the unfair deal, Jason shared that he’s grateful for what Hannah Montana did for his profession. He is aware of he didn’t get the large payday he feels he earned from such a large present, however he’s doing alright and mentioned he’s nonetheless higher off than lots of people.
