Nolan North has strong words for striking voice actors

[DonFerrari]

VGPolyglot said:

DonFerrari said:

Well, I heard japan have like a dozen male porn actors for thousand female actress and the most famous of the males said he felt sad because it must be boring to see he all the time in all the movies.

It is sad, but not for the reasons he's saying. What is said is how sexism is still so rampant there that there are thousands of women who are pressured into partaking in sexual acts for a living while a much smaller number of men have to do that.

Well you took that totally out.

Go read what he says and you'll see that just men there are just to out of women and so far they have very few candidates to act on the movies.

shikamaru317 said:

DonFerrari said:

And why do you think he is in all the games and the others have small roles very sparcely? Because they don't bring the same value to the production and thus won't have more money just because they want and think deserve.

No they aren't forced to work 2nd or 3rd job to make ends meet. If they do very small roles during very limited times of the year you can't even say their primary occupation is being VA.

Yes, sure there is so much profit being made... not like several companies are going bankrupt, should proggramers, devs and VAs pay for the companies going bankrupt? Nope, they unfortunately get fired and may miss a payment or another, but they aren't debted for the harshes of the company. They are being paid what they agreed to work for.

It's not just the lesser known voice actors that aren't being paid enough. There are some high profile voice actors taking part in this strike as well, people like Phil LaMarr and Jennifer Hale.

Just because they are forced to work a 2nd or 3rd job they shouldn't consider themselves to be voice actors? Even though that's what they want to be, what they've trained for, even paid for voice coaching lessons to become? I'm not saying these smaller voice actors should be paid the big bucks, many of them do nameless NPC voices and such, but they should make more than they are now. Some of them get paid a couple hundred dollars a day and only record a few days a month, that barely even covers the cost of the flight to the voice recording location if the actor doesn't live near where the recording is taking place. 

It's actors that think they deserve better payment, but not through negotiating their value but demanding through unions. So if you think even the ones that are paid enough are complaining them you see there is a parcel of entitlement.

No they aren't forced to work 2nd or 3rd. The VA is the 2nd or 3rd. If I pay soccer class and train every day but only get to play once or twice a year while working as Manager in a bank am I a soccer player or a bank Manager?

Getting a couple hundred for a day of work isn't shabby. The work you get to do 3 times a year for a few days shouldn't be the one paying your bills.

And living near your work is a responsibility of yourself not the company, they could just dismiss the candidate that doesn't live near if you want them to pay the cost of transport. The company paying that cost is only reasonable in basically two conditions you are close the company but they need you to go to a far away place or you are an specialist being hired for a specific issue and you'll charge all costs, fees and wage to go.