Posted by sweetangel at spider-te073.proxy.aol.com on August 16, 2000 at 14:15:50:
In Reply to: Re: It's hard to find good help anymore posted by MightyJoeYoung on August 16, 2000 at 11:57:11:
: I think with clerks, it was a more professional venture from the start. He held auditions, the main actors weren't his buddies, but actual actors.
: It wasn't like "Dude, O'Halloran, put down the playstation and come film the roof hockey scene"
: They were paid actors on a set.
Sorry, but the actors were not paid, right away anyway. In fact, actors didn't know if the pay would come at all, it depended on whether the movie actually got sold and distributed. So they knew they would if it did, but wouldn't if it didn't.