by Troy DeVolld
I don’t complain about much. I’m good with long hours, I don’t mind working a little harder to get a show in good shape and turned in on time. I can even handle parking blocks or even miles from a location and cramming into a shuttle with 7-23 other people to get to set.
Being asked to work as a local states away from home, however, bugs me.
What that means is finding (and paying for) a place to stay when you’re many hours from home, sometimes out of state or even the country working on a project. It’s not uncommon in reality’s non-union universe, as it saves the production company money on their most tightly-budgeted shows.