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Posted: 2023-07-19T18:11:09Z | Updated: 2023-07-19T18:11:09Z

Mandy Moore is the latest celebrity to speak up about the meager pay actors often receive for streaming content.

Moore joined fellow members of SAG-AFTRA, a union representing TV and movie actors, on the picket lines outside of Disneys Burbank studios on Tuesday. In an interview from the picket line, she told The Hollywood Reporter about receiving checks for mere cents after her hit show This Is Us began streaming.

The Tangled star called residual pay a huge issue for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The guilds 160,000 actors began a work stoppage last week after contract negotiations stalled with the industry trade group the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Moore noted that royalties have gone from a reliable stream of income to the occasional pocket change.

Were in incredibly fortunate positions as working actors having been on shows that found tremendous success in one way or another ... but many actors in our position for years before us were able to live off of residuals or at least pay their bills, she told The Hollywood Reporter, joined by fellow actor Katie Lowes, who was on Scandal.

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