According to Deadline, Aaron Paul (The Last House on the Left) recently shared that he doesn’t receive residuals from streams on Netflix from the Breaking Bad series. An issue of high importance during the SAG-AFTRA strike is actors not being paid by streaming services for the series they take a role in. Currently, actors and actresses don’t gain any residuals from their works that are shown on streaming platforms.
During a recent picket, Paul told Entertainment Tonight Canada, “I don’t get a piece from Netflix on Breaking Bad if we’re being totally honest, and that’s insane to me.”
He continued, “Shows live forever on these streamers, and it goes through waves. I just saw the other day that Breaking Bad was trending on Netflix. I think a lot of these streamers, they know that they have been getting away with not paying people a fair wage, and now it’s time to pony up. And that’s just one of the things that we’re fighting for.”
Below is a video of Paul speaking about not receiving any residuals.
According to Deadline, during the Breaking Bad reunion on the picket line, Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle) reflected and shared why it is that actors should fight to gain a better contract with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers.
Cranston said, “Broadcast is diminishing, year after year after year, and even if you do a broadcast show, your residual is going to be greatly cut. When we first started coming up in this business, a long time ago, we relied on residuals to be able to pay our bills. I mean, part of the equation of working was residuals, international residuals, DVD sales, and things like that. But those are gone.”