George Clooney
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Podcast Appearances
There's, I don't know, a hundred and some thousand members of my union and probably
I think about 5% make about $5,000 a year or more.
It's not a very lucrative, you know, it's a lot of luck takes place.
And I'd done a few shows that, I did a show called Roseanne when it first came out.
It was a huge hit, but I was like the 10th banana on that show.
And then I did the pilot and then ultimately the show when I was 33 years old for ER.
I'd done seven other television series and 13 television pilots.
And that had nothing to do with my brilliance as an actor.
It had to do with the fact that we had a great time slot, which was Thursday night at 10 o'clock on NBC, which for 16 years only had two shows, L.A.
And so for us to get that time slot was a big deal.
And then literally within a month, we were on the cover of magazines and people suddenly knew your name, which is a very different thing than recognizing you.
But once they know your name, that was a difference.