Greer Grammer Shares ‘Awkward’ Residual Checks for Literal Pennies

Greer Grammer is used to seeing literal pennies seem in her checking account because of TV residuals.

“Let’s open some streaming residuals. So, I just got all these bad boys in the mail today and I figured since there have been so many discussions about streaming residuals with the SAG strike going on, that I would do some live opening on what mine actually are right now,” Grammer, 31, mentioned in a Thursday, August 3, TikTok video.

Grammer, who’s greatest identified for her sequence common function as Lissa Miller on MTV’s five-season dramedy Awkward, opened up the slew of envelopes on digicam and revealed simply how a lot she earned from the MTV hit being streamed. “Awkward, ‘Are You there God, It’s Me, Jenna.’ Total gross: .80 cents,” she mentioned. “Oh, actually that’s what this [paystub] says but the check is actually for .50 cents.”

Grammer — who’s the daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer and ex Barrie Buckner — went to elucidate why residual paychecks are so necessary for working actors’ livelihoods.

“It’s basically the closest thing we get to job stability,” Greer added, holding up extra checks for $.63, $.60, $.30 and $.68. “Residuals are so important because sometimes they can go toward our health insurance, helping us qualify for that. ‘Be an actor,’ they said; ‘You’ll make money, they said! Actually, let’s be honest, nobody said that. It’s called ‘starving artist’ for a reason.”

Greer captioned her video: “These are actually better than most — usually they’re for 0.01.”

In addition to tearing open her newly acquired paystubs, Greer additional detailed how residuals have particularly helped her cowl bills through the years.

“Some years are more lucrative than others, like 2015 I finished a TV series and I did multiple movies, so that was like a good year for me,” the actress recalled. “And then there have been years where I’ve only booked two movies or one movie and my residuals are what help me, like, keep living my life so that I can audition and make acting my full-time job still.”

The SAG-AFTRA union — led by president Fran Drescher — approved a strike in July after contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) got here to a standstill. SAG-AFTRA had requested them to regulate residual funds so actors can profit from profitable streaming initiatives, in addition to different phrases concerning honest wages and using synthetic intelligence, to higher assist their livelihoods. The Writers Guild of America are additionally on strike after the AMPTP didn’t conform to related phrases of their contracts.