ABSTRACT
Money can thwart actors in all sorts of ways, from someone else's willingness to work for a smaller salary to one of the project's financier's decision that her protégé will be so much better in the role than them. Their part can be downgraded from a speaking role to that of an extra, as the production team struggles to save enough money from the existing budget to allow the director to use that extra-large crane that she has decided is so essential to a particular sequence. The terrible conditions imposed on them, from inadequate catering to inappropriate costumes to shooting far too much in one day, can be laid at the door of money, for those on the production team will reluctantly admit to actors that they have only two options: to accept what they know to be an awful budget or not to do the project at all.
