Hustlin'

Read an interesting article this morning.  The Wrap is doing a series about how the economic downturn is affecting the "business of show" and have featured articles with an actor, a screenwriter, a production manager and a post-production technician.  I've only read the one with the actor so far but now I'm interested in reading the other ones as well.  The one with the actor gives the perspective of Christine Lakin, who was a series regular on Step-by-Step when she was a teenager.  Which was airing roughly around when I was becoming a teenager.  Part of my TGIF line-up, I'll admit.  So she was a successful child star and has continued to work but lately things have slowed down for her.  She used to have pilot seasons where she'd go out for 3 or 4 pilots a day.  This year she went out for 4.  Total.  With the need to sell shows, networks are casting movie stars in the main roles and that trickle down affects us all.  So Christine is doing what she can and even wrote a web series...about a former child star trying to make a comeback in the biz.  Sound familiar?  She is working an exclusive deal with Hulu to have her series air.  I'm just glad GIRL PARTS is out now and doing so well on Blip!  Besides the web series similarities, the article gives a good perspective of how the hustle is out here...and how different it is to get a job today than it was even a few years ago.  Here's a link to the article if you want to check it out.