Sunday February 25, 2007 Taiwan Taiwan pop star Jay Chou was slammed by netizens for his stinginess while filming his debut movie The Secret That Cannot Be Told. It happened when Jay was filming a graduation ceremony and hired 400 extras to portray as students… and only paid those extras ~USD1 per hour salary. Most of the extras didn’t mind though, as their purpose was to see their idol Jay Chou in person. The netizens however are not happy and claimed that Jay was stingy and the production team was using Jay’s popularity to exploit young fans. credits: stareastasia, asianfanatics.
hmmm if they got autographs and pipctures n wut not and a hand shake... then hell yah id do it =D especailly if its like not like... 40 hrs worth of fliming to be done... -_-
If these fools were willing to do it for $1/hour then I don't see what's wrong with it. Jay isn't responsible for these people to be stupid enough to do it for that little.
only exploitation if they had no choice, or no better alternatives available for them... pretty sure they chose to do this so they cud see him XD
Omigawd, I'll do it for free to see Jay Chou, and I bet those people working as extras don't really care about the money either! ^.^ lol! After all, why else would they agree to getting paid 1 buck, yah? ^.^ It's worth it still; an experience to be have anyways. besides, it's the company that should be blamed if they gotta scream at something. What's up with them picking on Jay?
jay should of at least give them some free stuff..like one of the post said a autograph or photos of jay should be nice
in america people do this extra stuff for free if it only requires what they're doing. People need to let celebrities alone!
Hehe I saw Jay when he was filming his music video just round the corner for me here in London my friend flipped out when I told her where it was filmed
yea i was an extra for the filming of the tv show Supernatural and Jared (one of the main stars and a total hottie) took a picture with me and signed the ear of the stuff animal prop i was holding totally worth the 9 hours i spent on set
wow that is little. i hope they know they are being exploited. but if they're willing to do it, then whatever.
