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Bribe PA's on movie sets for SAG extra vouchers

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I have been considering going to movie sets and handing the production assistant who’s checking in background $100 for a SAG voucher.  I only have one at the time and am growing increasingly frustrated with lugging bags full of clothes around to movies sets try to obtain them.  I have been doing extra work for more than a year now, and nobody’s been throwing those things at me. I need to join SAG in order to pursue film acting.  Since it is rarer now than ever for anyone to get Taft-Hartleyed by getting lines, extra work is the route many actors who don’t have relatives in the business must take. No agent will touch you without a SAG card. Going the route of joining AFTRA first doesn’t seem viable, in that I don’t see many of my type in soaps or AFTRA sitcoms.  That would be a wasted $1,000.  Though, however, if AFTRA gets into music video, I will join. There has to be alternative to extra work for getting that elusive SAG card.

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I have been considering going to movie sets and handing the production assistant who’s checking in background $100 for a SAG voucher.

No, my friend, you do not pay a P.A. $100 for a SAG voucher. Where did you get this notion???  Maybe that’s how it would work if SAG was owned and operated by a national crime syndicate.  SAG vouchers (via extra work) are outlined in SAG’s website: http://sag.com Save yourself and this group a few posts….the message your sent (see below) needs clarification.   Get an agent I only have one at the time and am growing increasingly frustrated with lugging bags full of clothes around to movies sets try to obtain them.  I have been doing extra work for more than a year now, and nobody’s been throwing those things at me. I need to join SAG in order to pursue film acting.  Since it is rarer now than ever for anyone to get Taft-Hartleyed by getting lines, extra work is the route many actors who don’t have relatives in the business must take. No agent will touch you without a SAG card. Going the route of joining AFTRA first doesn’t seem viable, in that I don’t see many of my type in soaps or AFTRA sitcoms.  That would be a wasted $1,000.  Though, however, if AFTRA gets into music video, I will join. There has to be alternative to extra work for getting that elusive SAG card.

Break a leg, Bill — THE ACTING STUDIO http://gvtg.com/theactingstudio

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Don’t bribe people, just keep plugging away! Todd

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