WHY YOU JUST CAN'T RUN OUT AND JOIN THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS;

WHY YOU JUST CAN'T RUN OUT AND JOIN THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD>>>>SAG/AFTRA?????

WHY...YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER; READ ON>>> PLEASE.

Any struggling actors who have never had a significant role before are not members of the Screen Actors Guild. SAG was designed as a union to ensure that actors were paid fair wages for their work. Nearly every movie and television show has to operate within the guidelines of SAG, which means that they can only hire SAG actors or else they have to pay a hefty fine to cast someone outside the union. Naturally, studios will cast SAG members over nonmembers every time. So how do you become a member? Well, that's where things get completely absurd.

The rules of SAG state, "Performers are eligible to join Screen Actors Guild after working on a SAG film in a principal role." So just to clarify, no one will cast you unless you are already in the union, and you can't get into the union until you are cast. A director has to like you so much that he or she is willing to trust you with a primary role despite the fact that you have no previous experience in film and be willing to pay a fine just to have you in that role. Now remember before when I mentioned that there are hundreds of other people who look exactly like you auditioning? At least 50 of them will already have their SAG cards.

Then again the 'script' outlines the roles that are needed, the age, the look and the skill level...basically there is no 'one' particular look...EVER. Based on what we pointed out above, there has to be a way for new people (actors) to become SAG or there would not be very many members, you would have to wait until they all die off, right? Wrong. There are sometimes 'open calls' when the director couldn't find, (or afford) what they needed for a particular role. Next an 'upgrade'>>this happens when the director needs to add another 'speaking role" *(SAG) but want's it right now, and he/she is not going to stop filming, call his casting director and have auditions, they are going to 'pick' probably someone playing an extra to give it a shot.{ and this is where your real acting classes come into play } no notice what so ever>>>RIGHT NOW.  I COVER ALL OF THIS IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES THAT WE HAVE....AND PAY FOR. Is the film company going to get that 'hefty fine' for doing this, you bet they are...but to the director it's cheaper that stopping filming and going and having auditions...GET YOURSELF PREPARED.

William Reynolds