People seem to have to work harder with a lot less time
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indeed Miss Piper, you unbelievable tit. and guess what, some even have to do this day in day out just to get by, unlike you who should have enough dosh stashed away to have a nice life anyway. even your drama of 'struggling to find work' isn't totally unheard of by many, i am told.
some people do ask for negative press. in a few months time she will be whining how everyone is so negative towards her and how she is so misunderstood. unless of course she will now release a statement how the Sun totally misinterpreted her real comments.
some people do ask for negative press. in a few months time she will be whining how everyone is so negative towards her and how she is so misunderstood. unless of course she will now release a statement how the Sun totally misinterpreted her real comments.
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She has joined the ranks of most other actors who are lucky if they work three times a year, and have to take other jobs to get by.
Programmes are still being made, it's just that people don't want her IN them. Diddums.
I am presuming she didn't decide to spontaneously phone the paper just to complain, but was in fact answering their questions.
precisely. contrary to many others out of a job, she had the chance to stash away quite a bit, to tide her over till the grave if need be. and has a hubby who seems to rake it in still.
Are you just wanting to have a pop at her because you don't like her? Because that's what it sounds like.
I can't find one single line in that interview to disagree with. Billie is speaking from her own experience and I would imagine the experience of a huge number of working actors about the lack of new opps in tv since it's become so clogged up with cheap as chips shite. How dare she voice her opinion. Shame on you, Billie. :rolleyes:
She was asked a question and she gave a truthful answer. what's to get upset about?
She's not allowed an opinion.
She's right - I work in TV and the only programmes we are making are for overseas as we can't raise the budget over here so there is less work.
It's unusual for an actor to admit they can't get work.
I think there's a lot of misconception about regarding how much jobbing actors get paid. They also have agents and PR companies that take their cut so the idea that someone who's been in a couple of successful tv series is set for life is pretty innacurate. Acting is a precarious life, there's no security, no paid hols, no employee benefits. Not getting new work, when acting is all you can do and the only way that you can earn a living, has to be worrying. Which is all Piper is expressing, her own concerns about her career.
"Celebrities" really don't earn as much as many seem to think, even your big A-List film actors and multi-platinum recording artists earn a fraction of the amount bankers, corporation executives, city stock brokers and the people who fund the films they star in do. In the UK they earn hardly anything considering how much banks on so few of them.
Was she a jobbing actor?
If Mrs Rooney was paid £12,000 an episode for a 'reality' show, then I suspect Ms Piper would have been paid considerably more to star in the 'Secret Diary'.
If she finds her agent appyling for work tiring what's she going feel like when she gets work?
Is she saying she's had no work since filming the last 'Secret Diary' or since it last aired?
With her profile why has she no further work...naff actor, too pricey?
If she is forced to work in America I would think the rates of pay are far more than in the UK?
Compare that with someone sacked from a manufacturing job or a call centre going to work in China or India and their lower rates of pay.
Something else that annoys about actors is when a megastar probably millions for one film bleats about the funding of the arts.
I don't mind her as an actress although her new accent is cringeworthy.
PS: and i just noticed a perfectly fine post highlighting how one of my attackers is factually wrong has been removed. ace.
might i be so bold to point out that Ms Billie Piper is not just a jobbing actress but has had a number of sources of income in her life, including but not limited to a minor pop career, far more parts than just 2 major TV series and a number of ad campaigns that she lent her face to?
aforementioned revenue streams must by now have allowed her to garner an income higher than many peope get in their whole life.
kind regards.
Good on her for being honest and not doing the 'I'm reading scripts', 'being lined up for X Factor US' etc etc.
A good role model IMO.