17/03/2026
Everybody is doing business, and in business there are no emotions.
A producer is an investor first, and like every investor, their primary concern is return on investment.
If you are given an offer and you feel the offer is not good enough for you, please walk away.
You have that right, and no one should take it from you.
Let them find another person to accept the same offer.
And if they cannot find someone, they might increase the offer.
But do not accept an offer today and then become a victim tomorrow.
But as long as you were given a contract, understood the conditions and accepted it, do not come years later to tell everyone that you were used.
I have never seen any producer or production company who put a gun to someone’s head and forced them to sign a contract or take a role.
Consent matters, and you gave yours the moment you signed.
Where I fault production companies is when upcoming actors are hired for a project but are not given a contract or clearly told how much they will be paid.
At the end of the production, they are then paid whatever the producer decides to give them.
That is where someone can rightly claim exploitation.
That is a system that must change, and our industry needs to take it seriously.
But it is not the same when the payment was discussed with you beforehand and you accepted it.
Many times, people accept such offers out of desperation, and years later they come out to complain that they were paid a small fee.
Desperation is understandable, but it does not change what was agreed.
Let me also say this.
What many people see as success may not actually be success in the business sense.
For example, if a producer spends $10,000 to make a movie and the film ends up on YouTube with one million views, many people will assume the producer has made a lot of money.
In reality, the movie may not even have recovered the amount spent to produce it.