Kimiko Glenn Claims ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Cast Weren’t Paid ‘Very Well Ever,’ Needed 2 Jobs
usmagazine.comOrange is the New Black alum Kimiko Glenn is standing with fellow striking members of SAG-AFTRA amid their contract disputes with streamers like Netflix.“My tits live on in perpetuity [and] I deserve to get paid for as many f—king streams as that s—t gets,” Glenn, 34, said in a Saturday, July 15, TikTok video, referring to her Orange is the New Black topless scenes. “Second of all, we did not get paid very well ever.
And when I say ‘did not get paid very well,’ you would die.”She continued: “People were bartenders still [and] people had their second jobs still.
They were f—king famous as s—t, like internationally famous … but had to keep their second jobs because they couldn’t afford to not!”Orange is the New Black, which was inspired by Piper Kerman’s memoir of the same name, was adapted by Netflix in 2013.
The award-winning series followed Piper (Taylor Schilling) after she was booked at a local women’s prison to serve her sentence for transporting a suitcase of then-girlfriend Alex’s drug money.
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