Like yea, it is less work, I guess. But the main problem with acting in porn isn’t that you need to fuck for hour, it is that you can be forever found out to have stared in porn. And even if you just played someone who gets cheated on and appears for a minute, that is still staring in porn.
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They are paid in Popeye’s spicy chicken sandwiches.
So, not a bad deal.
You don’t even get paid that much for porn to begin with depending what you are filming and for who. Extras probably get like, food, first row seats and somewhere between 1-500 bucks. Performers will make like 3-800 upwards maybe 2k with the women usually getting the better end of the stick in straight porn. It’s more about royalties and quantity plus any other online sex work revenue you get in addition to professional porn shoots.
I’ve never thought about this before but you’re right. Why on earth would anyone accept these jobs?
They’re usually part of the production staff. Hairdressers, production assistants, etc.
Yes, porn has crews.
It can vary a bit, but they usually aren’t being paid much at all.
I used to shoot porn when I was a young film student. It allowed me to practice film making, I was horny, and I got paid, all in all it was a pretty sweet gig.
On our shoots these people wouldn’t be paid anything besides access to the food we provided, and that was usually just pizza. But our producer was a serious cheapskate, and often wouldn’t pay male talent period, even if they were actually doing the acts. He argued that they got free sex out of it.
I have been on bigger shoots where male talent was always paid though, and they would basically pay the people you are talking about just some extra cash they had on hand. Rarely was it more than $100.
This post makes me wonder about two things.
You mean they should have paid ME?
They’re just happy to be invited.
Why? Are you interested?
My friend worked as a janitor on a set in van nuys, I used to go help him vacuum and shit. The disgusting shit is top level disgusting.
Like the other dude said, the nasty condoms with shit or period juice on them. Shit stains on clothes, towels lubes mixed with shit and cum. The fucking smells omg… they had offices too in the same building. We would do a days work in 2 hrs and is always do the offices but the smells get trapped in there. I remember him showing me a giant dildo that had a little circle of accumulated shit at the base of it. It was so nasty the shit glimmered, it looked like it was alive.
There’s lube smeared everywhere too. Like people used lube or oil then touched stuff around the sets, door knobs were all slippery. I honestly don’t see how people can do all that. If porn showed all that shit I don’t think it would be so profitable.
Is porn SAG? Then minimum wage SAG rates 😭😂
I had to read it a few times, I though you were talking about the game oblivion, nothing made sense lol
I should rest now
If anyone here happens to be a Workaholics fan, there was a Reddit post a few years ago about Waymond Lee (RIP) being spotted as an extra in a porn video. I have a feeling that it’s more common than one might think for smaller character actors and such to supplement their income in this way. Money is money, yo!
https://www.reddit.com/r/workaholics/comments/3ww6pe/holy_shit_guys_i_think_i_just_saw_waymond_working/
$150-300
Nothing ! The guys don’t get much extras gets to watch it
Probably around $100–$500, way less than the main performers but still comes with the same stigma.
They’re probably just other pornstars or crew people not actual “extra”actors
Which fucking part?
You should search for an AMA of a guy who does this for living and even getting awards for non-sex performance in adult movies. That was fascinating.
You can appear in a porn film as an extra and become POTUS, with evangelicals proclaiming you as their new messiah. It isn’t that much of a stigma.
There aren’t really extras in porn anymore. Not often, anyway.
That’s more of a Joey on Friends joke than a real thing. At least, now.
I don’t think that person is the star of the show….
When I worked in the industry in the aughts (2008) as a male "talent" performer for a very well respected company in San Francisco it was $600 – $800 ($900 – $1500 in today’s dollars) per scene plus all the AIM testing/transportation/snacks, and Viagra anyone might want.
*Edit AIM testing.
I am a highly sought after porn extra I get 10k
I went to college in The Valley (CA), where a large percentage of porn is filmed. We would see flyers around our dorms all the time looking for volunteers to be the background in a series called College Fuck Fest. Basically, they needed people to stand around and simulate a frat party. The pay was free beer and pizza. There was one month we all decided we were going to pull the trigger and actually go, and then it got cancelled due to rain 🤣
Coming from a porn actor:
Extras in porn are usually other porn actors who happen to be free that day, not regular people. They’re just not as famous so you don’t recognize them. It’s not a full time job, generally they just reach out to an agent and see who they have available that day who isn’t booked and are willing to do a small gig. So being “forever found out” isn’t an issue.
I’ve been an extra: $150 is what I was paid. You’re there for a few hours, you need to be in hair and makeup usually (if you’re female talent like me), do paperwork, but once the sex starts you can leave.
Generally a porn gig is a 6-8 hour day for the main talents (can be less if everything goes perfectly smooth). That includes makeup and hair, paperwork and getting to know your scene partner and going over the plan with the director, photos for promos, filming the set up/opening scene. The actual scene requires starting a stopping many times and readjusting the angles and lighting to get enough minutes in each position. Which takes a few hours usually. Less if you’re lucky and have great chemistry with your partner. So when you’re an extra, you only need to be there for 2-3 hours.