The Asian stars of 'Hawaii Five-0' quit the show after CBS refused to pay them as much as their white costars http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-five-0-asian-stars-quit-cbs-pay-discrimination-2017-7 Don't watch much T.V so not sure if it's really race related or their characters just aren't as important to the show as their co-stars. It's also an eight year old show. Thoughts?
Teh Baba will be deeply offended, Grace Park has been wronged. How will she get to have a lipstick lesbian love scene with Tricia Helfer now? We'll see if playing the race card will change the producers' minds. Most shocking thing from the article? Hawaii Five O has been on since 2010 and has gone for 168 episodes, and I've never watched a single one. Park is lucky to have a career post-Enterprise.
Hillary was a vagina victim in more ways than one! She was not only a victim of the accident of her birth that cursed her with a vagina (second-class citizen status), but she was victimized by other vaginas who exercised independent thought and didn't support her candidacy. These other silly vaginas sided with Bernie because that's where all the cute Bernie Bros were hanging out, remember?
^Hillary was unbalanced, yet unstable Maxine Waters makes Hillary sound almost rational, it's all relative. But of course Sarah Palin deserves leftie hate, she had it coming. But leftie cunts are "women" and merit respect. But sorry, Flash, I deleted it. Had an error - prejudice against Democrats is not against their stupidity but their rampant hypocrisy; my bad.
#1 Shocked the show is still on. Really shows that I don't watch any network TV. #2 If they were main characters than yeah they should be getting the same. Why the hell did they wait this long though to quit? I feel there is a piece missing from the whole story.
Wrong Park, you racist. Being a huge fan of the original, I couldn't stand this ridiculous remake, so I haven't watched past the first few eps.
I've never watched the show, but i know the Asian stars are highly recognizable actors from Lost and BSG. I don't recognize the white actors at all. I'm kind of surprised the Asians weren't making more to begin with.
I was a little weirded out by them casting the hot Korean Cylon chick in the part of the fat Hawaiian male junior detective.
You refuse to support a show with two ethnic minority actors in leading roles, oppressing them with your remote control white privilege, yet I'm the racist? Have you gotten a new white fluffy Aryan Nation dog yet?
If they're main characters (I don't watch the show, so I've no idea) then they should all get the same pay. On the opposite end of this, some of the big names on The Big Bang Theory recently threatened to quit unless their co-stars got the same pay as they did. IIRC, they actually took a cut so that their colleagues could get a raise and they'd all be on the same level.
The solution might be hiring a more aggressive agent as that seems to be where the rubber meats the road wrt salary negotiations for actors.
In all seriousness, this happens to Asian actors and other minorities a lot more than you'd think. I'm FB friends with someone who works at Bad Robot who says they've had a hell of a time getting certain projects off the ground because the studio insists on making the lead characters white males. And agents have told their Asian clients to take roles for shit pay and fight it later. Meanwhile, yellowface continues to happen unabated, probably because Asians are the only minority group who are above protesting and destroying things in frustration to bring attention to shit like this.
There was recent row over the X-files leads, when David Duchovny was offered twice as much as Gillian Anderson for the new series. This seemed somewhat appropriate to me since Duchovny, since the original series, has become by far the more established actor, with seven seasons of Californication et al. But the Internet was howling about sexism. In this case maybe the Internet has a point.
In the producers' estimation, Kim and Park simply weren't worth the extra money. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. Let's see if Kim and Park get better gigs on other shows, or if Hawaii Five-O's ratings decline.
Slight correction. The studio thought they could get away with paying them less, not necessarily that they were worth less. Not the same. How aware are you of Joseph Stiglitz's work on Asymmetric Information?
Every player in the market tries to get the most for what he sells, and pay the least for what he buys. That's common sense. The actors thought they were worth more, the studio thought they were worth less...we'll see which (if either) is right. If Kim and/or Park get lead roles in new series for more money, we'll know they were correct. If the ratings on Hawaii Five-O don't decline, we'll know the producers were right. I've read a little on it. No doubt the actors involved have agents who seek out and entertain other offers, and thus have a sense of their own market value. If so, the asymmetry may be in their favor. We won't know who was right (again, if either) until we see how it plays out.
I've seen a few episodes and I think this is just an effort at negotiating for a better salary. note that "The Big Bang Theory" just a couple of years ago threatened to write out no less than five major characters (two of which have been there from the beginning) if they insisted on the same million dollar an episode salaries of Cuco, Galecki, and Parsons.
Those two were the biggest names in the entire cast, btw. It's a bad look to have a show set in Honolulu that features absolutely no Asian or Islander characters and that IIRC the rest of the characters there are transplants considering the attitude towards the haoles in Hawaii these days. That, and CBS in particular is notoriously bad in the diversity department.
I love it when Hollywood pretends to promote equality around award seasons. What an empty gesture. Hollywood will always be the the first industry to pay lip-service and the last industry to observe gender and racial equality. After all, they have tickets to sell. You'll never see an Aboriginal James Bond. It must be the handiwork of all those notoriously shrewd, evil "white people" who run Hollywood.
