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booked. So these are coaches that are keeping my numbers at a certain numworking right in the trenches.
ber. When I reach that number, if I have
Johnnie who I’ve been submitting for a
So the difference between you recom- year and maybe parents won’t switch
mending a child do acting and this out photos, he doesn’t have a reel up, I
other organization is they’re actual- can’t get him out, then I need to get rid
ly taking the money. You guys don’t of Johnnie so I can get another boy in
make any money off recommenda- there that can make something happen.
tions?
Is it easier to find girls or boys?
No, we don’t make any money – I cannot legally make money on a photogra- Ten to one, girls are in the industry, so
pher, and you know this, I can’t collect boys are a hot commodity. Latino boys
money from that person. That would are even hotter – that’s the number one
be unethical. I’m under an agency and right now. African American boys, AfI need to represent the agency. I cannot rican American girls. Anything but
charge people for coaching. I cannot blonde hair, blue eyed, honestly, right
do any of that.
now, is what’s hot.
So how do you guys make your mon- Once a child gets signed, there are
ey?
certain things that they need to do,
not only getting the pictures… exI make my money when I make my plain the Coogan account and work
client money. When my client makes permits and how all of that works.
money, I get ten percent.
If a kid gets signed by an agency, the
And that’s the only money you guys first thing they need to do is they need
make.
to get a Coogan account and work permit under photos.
Well twenty percent if it’s non-union.
That’s the only money we make.
What is a Coogan account?
So basically if you don’t book the child, So the Coogan account is for anybody
then you don’t make the money.
under 18 and it’s by law that any of the
productions that book your child have
That’s why I don’t keep somebody on to put twenty percent into this account
my roster that is wasting my space, and then the rest will go to the parent
because I have a limited roster. I like or the actor.
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