WATCH: Letoya Luckett Dispels Hollywood Myths: "It's not all glamorous"
The Greenleaf star shed light on actors' reality, often juggling regular jobs between roles to stay afloat.
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00:00 Since you've been in both like the music and entertainment like sectors, can you provide
00:06 an overview about the life of a paid actor?
00:10 Man, I think people think that it's glamorous.
00:13 I think when they see us in certain roles or, you know, what people think about Hollywood,
00:19 they think of grammar, they think of this just different lifestyle and you don't want
00:24 for anything and we can use our name to get everything.
00:27 Nah, bruh, nah, not like that.
00:31 There's like, I think it's like 2% of the acting community that, you know, might be
00:37 doing a whole lot better than others.
00:40 With there are, you know, actors that you've seen in several different projects who might
00:46 be day players, who might be background actors, who are still working and, you know, being
00:52 waiters and waitresses or having to have a line of five or, you know, to keep the light
00:58 going.
00:59 It's not as glamorous as people make it out to be and I don't think people understand
01:04 that there is a long stretch of time between each project where we're not working.
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