"Acting Under Orders" A Look Into a Power Rangers Contract
 

A peek thanks to New Zealand's reporters:

http://werewolf.co.nz/2012/10/dealin...tah-hollywood/

Wow. Just.... just frakking wow. They aren't Actors so much as Slaves with a Contract. No residuals, forced to work extra without pay, and on and on. Dear Lord Jesus.

You know what? After reading that I'm sorry I came down on the Samurai Actors for not being able to act. I'd give a piss-poor performance to if I was being treated like that.

After hearing about all the stuff the original MMPR cast had to agree to in the Amy Jo Johnson podcast, its a little sad to hear things have apparently changed so little for cast members.

Yeah, but this is also a Saban contract. We'd have to compare it to a Disney contract as well.

But, this explains why Ciara was so happy and giddy the first few weeks being in New Zealand and now she tweets with:

Are they Union do we know? Probally not given what Amy had to say, but. If they are why isn't the Guild doing anything?

As far as I know, Power Rangers actors are usually non-Union. Saban would specifically aim to hire non-union actors.

It's sad that the actors and production are pushed to such extremes, especially since this has been the norm since the MMPR days. Nothing much has changed, it seems.

Steven Skyler and Paul Schrier are union. Ciara Hanna and Azim Rizk likely are also.

Steve Cardenas is probably a big player in the "maintaining the image" clause.....after the stuff he did on and off set before and after the show....

You'd think the Union would've seen that contract then and tried doing something about it.

What did he do? o.o

well when disney had power raanger they became union but saban era 1 and saban era 2 more like non-union

I'm curious about this too. I've heard about his "reputation" so to speak, but never the specifics of it.

ehh, I shoulda kept my mouth shut......(because A) I don't want things to start floating around and B) I'm starting to run out of "inside" knowledge to impart)

but lets just say just about any scene you see him film during his entire tenure was not what in what we would call a "low" condition.

Speaking of Cardenas, a girl at a bank near me told me when I said I was going to a Power Rangers convention that she knew a ranger named Steve. I instantly thought of Skyler, and then said Cardenas, and she said that was him and that they dated sometime in the past. She said she used to live near him. I didn't know how much truth there was to it.

:lol no worries, I get the gist of it ;)

I think the article is being overly biased and "OMG HOW HORRIBLE" to Saban and the contracts they do.

- Yes, you have to remain in the same physical condition and appearance if you're filming a television show. Even extreme tanning will change your appearance. I see the need for this when you're filming episodic things.

- The "you won't talk bad about us now or for xx years after" is also totally understandable. Who wants to have someone bad-mouthing you while you're paying them, or when your product (which features them) is still on the air/available?

The money issues are a little tight, but it comes down to what they're being paid. I mean, is anyone here going to complain about being on television, being a Power Ranger, and going in to record your voice on a toy or a video game (albeit you're not being paid but are you in it for the money or because it's your dream to do this?).

Big stink out of nothing huge in my opinion. I won't even touch the political part, and neither should any of us, as it's against the rules :)

The title of this thread should actually be "Acting Under Orders" instead of "Acting Under Pressure" if someone could change it.