I’m Paul Ray from the official Teen Wolf wiki.
Today I’m going to do my best to try to bring clarity to a situation that has
cast a pall over the upcoming Teen Wolf movie and that has upset me personally.
I really wish I had the use of my real voice back. This video requires special emphasis
and sarcasm and I can do neither with this voice clone. But I'll work with what I have.
In this video, I will likely burn a few of my sources.
I’m hopeful that I can be circumspect enough with the information as to not out them and blatantly
reveal their specific roles within the company, but sometimes truth must will out above all else.
I keep telling myself that I shouldn’t do this when I’m angry,
but I’m going to be angry about this for a while, and something needs to be said.
This article released by Deadline Tuesday afternoon is dangerously misleading,
Scratch that. This article is manipulating information in such a way as to purposefully
inflame racial tensions, and is a direct attack on individuals who have attempted to deal fairly,
in a business that is all too often unfair to those involved.
Here’s the offending paragraph.
“According to sources, Cho, the only actress of color among the four female series regular
cast members who played the group of teen friends at the center of the show,
was offered half the per-episode salary proposed to her three counterparts, leading to her decision
to pass. Cho recurred in Season 3 and was a series regular in Seasons four and five.”
There’s a great deal wrong here,
but I’m attempting to limit myself to things I actually know and can prove.
First, there is not a "per-episode" rate involved here. The contract offered was
for an appearance in a film. One, self-contained production. Arden was
likely offered a weekly contract rate for reasons I'll get to in a moment.
So the whole thing about getting a "per-episode" deal is something factually wrong in the article.
It is a minor, but important point that shows how the author wishes to mislead the reader.
The four female series regulars they’re talking about are Holland Roden who did six seasons,
Shelley Hennig who did four seasons, Crystal Reed who did three seasons,
and Arden Cho who did two and a half seasons.
Here are the facts that are not in this Deadline story, but were easily
discovered had the Deadline editor simply asked some questions as I actually did.
A very well-placed source tells me that Arden was to work for just two weeks on the Teen Wolf Movie.
Kira was penciled into the script outline in a small but important role.
I'm told the kitsune had a big heroic appearance in the final act of the film.
She would have helped save the pack in a big memorable burst of flames designed to delight
the fans, and to give the character the big finish that she didn’t really get in the series.
For this relatively small part. Arden Cho was
offered the exact same pay rate that was offered to.
Dylan Sprayberry.
Melissa Ponzio.
Linden Ashby.
J-R Bourne.
Ian Bohen.
Colton Haynes.
Seth Gilliam.
and Ryan Kelley.
this next bit needs a little background knowledge to really understand.
So, here's a great big text wall that I cribbed from Backstage.com and
their Secret Agent Man segments.
There are generally two types of contracts for the Teen Wolf movie - weekly or full picture. If contracted weekly, your pay is based on how many weeks you're scheduled to work. If you contract the full movie, you get paid a flat rate no matter how much you work on the film.
Now. I’m terrible at math so I might be missing something here. Please check my figures.
According to one of my sources who deals with contracts, the other female series
regulars compared in that Deadline article are each contracted for roughly 10 weeks of work.
Arden Cho, was asked to do just two weeks of work on the film.
That would have worked out to about 5 days of actual filming.
Ten weeks, of, work.
Two, weeks of work.
Ten weeks, of work.
Two, weeks, of work.
When you pro-rate the offered salaries based on the amount of time required on set,
Arden was actually getting more money for her time than any of the other women
referenced in that misleading Deadline article.
But, even if she was to be on set for the whole ten weeks,
Arden was still offered the exact same rate-of-pay as the majority
of the other returning characters in the movie regardless of their race or gender.
I’ll see you next time we go back to Beacon Hills.