The actress Samantha Clinch who was an extra and played Hogwarts student Eloise Midgen in the Harry Potter saga, published a video on her social media talking about behind the scenes on the film sets and the cast’s pay.
She says that as an extra, she worked 12 hours a day — arriving at 5 a.m. for breakfast — and was paid around R$300 a day, approximately R$21 an hour. In the video, Clinch asks herself: “Is this legal? This is chaos, looking back, it is chaos.”
@samanthaclinch Replying to @Bear The money video
How much I earnt as an extra, how much I earned as #eloisemidgen how much #danielradcliffe was paid, how we got the most for our money
AND what I spent it on
#nostalgia #harrypotterbts #harrypotterextra #harrynpotter #harrypottertok #harrypotterandthegobletofire #gof #harrypottertok #childstar #fyp
According to her, when she got the role of Eloise, she started receiving around R$433 per day.
In a comparison, he comments that actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the protagonist, received around R$61 million just for the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, the fourth in the sequence.
Samantha expressed her indignation at the payment of extras, commenting that the banquets in the Common Room were all-you-can-eat and, according to her calculations, should cost at least R$93 per day.
This content was originally published in Harry Potter actress talks about poor pay and long hours on set on CNN Brasil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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