Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park leave "Hawaii Five-0"

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People who I have never heard of leaving a tv show that I have never watched.
 
After 8 seasons, they dhould be on an equal pay scale. I hve never watched it though…
 
Perhaps if the actual article title had been used for the thread it would be more obvious that this is about more than just two actors leaving the cast of a TV show:

The Asian stars of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ quit the show after CBS refused to pay them as much as their white costars

Regardless of whether or not I’ve seen the show, I’d be curious to know why the network pays non-white actors less than white actors when all share top billing.
 
UpUpAndAway said:
Perhaps if the actual article title had been used for the thread it would be more obvious that this is about more than just two actors leaving the cast of a TV show:

The Asian stars of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ quit the show after CBS refused to pay them as much as their white costars

Regardless of whether or not I’ve seen the show, I’d be curious to know why the network pays non-white actors less than white actors when all share top billing.
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They must have lousy agents. In this day ad age there is no excuse for not doing your homework.
 
I like both those actors and will be sad to see them gone but it seems relevant to me that they are not the main characters of the show.
 
They are the co-stars, not the stars. I would think 10-15% below what the main characters are making would be reasonable. This is not an Asian thing but the way pay scales work.
 
I generally don’t watch the show, so I don’t know all the details about each character’s total airtime, importance to story lines, etc.

However, I would think that Kim and Park have a case if it were an ensemble cast, the top 4 characters all being equal, like the six Friends.
I get the impression, though, that McGarrett and Danny are the two mains, and all the others are basically “Also Starring…”, in which case the pay is commensurate with their position in the show’s hierarchy.

The inequality would arise, I guess, in that the two main characters are white guys, and women/people of colour are in the “Also Starring” category. (I mean, if you can cast a Korean-American woman instead of a native Hawai’an as Kono Kalakaua, you easily could have had, say, an African-American woman as Steve McGarrett.)
 
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