Luke Cook dinner thinks different actors must “get some balls.”

Final week, Cook dinner, who’s greatest identified for enjoying Lucifer on Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” shared a TikTok video explaining what the SAG actors’ strike is all about — and the way most individuals in Hollywood aren’t making huge financial institution.

In it, he revealed that he drives a “2010 Mazda S3. My earlier automobile was a 2006 Ford Taurus.” He additionally broke down how “95%” of SAG (Display Actors Guild) actors “can’t make a residing from appearing. They’ve bought to have aspect hustles.”

Cook dinner broke down how little he makes by sharing what he earned showing on 4 episodes of the Hulu collection “Dollface.”

He famous that the studio “put me on a billboard on Sundown. Have you learnt how a lot they paid me to be on that billboard? Nothing. The quantity they paid me to be on the present was not significantly better … “

“I bought paid per episode, which is 2 weeks of labor, $7,500. Then it’s taxed, then a supervisor takes 10%, an agent takes 10% and a lawyer takes 5%.”

Cook dinner made it clear this isn’t about headlining stars, who will be paid from $100,000 a TV episode as much as thousands and thousands per challenge, however the co-stars who make up the remainder of a present.

“That is for actors like myself who depend on aspect hustles in an effort to get by as a result of we like to do the job that we like to do and we’re keen to make the sacrifice of life, to dedicate our lives to it,” he stated. “We’re simply asking for a good payday.”

And regardless of showing on CW exhibits like “Katy Keene” and the “Dynasty” reboot, Cook dinner counts himself as a kind of actors who must “aspect hustle.”

His others jobs embody instructing a bunch health class, and he’s about to launch a protein drink.

In an interview with Web page Six, the Australian-born star stated that since posting the video he’s had colleagues attain out to say they’re grateful — as a result of they wouldn’t have had the braveness to do it themselves.

“I’m like, however we’d like you to inform your story proper now … why don’t you could have the braveness?” he stated. “You don’t wish to piss off the bosses, like your future bosses. I perceive that sentiment, I actually do. However I simply suppose we should be somewhat extra brave proper now. If we band collectively, they’ll’t shoot us all down.”

He identified how members of the writers guild, who’re additionally on strike, “have gotten on the market and stated some heinous s–t about their bosses. Actors should not doing the identical factor …I simply suppose we’ve misplaced our rebellious spirit.”

“I’m hoping, fingers crossed, that we get some balls, for the need of a greater phrase.”

One who has spoken out has is Kimiko Glenn, who performed prisoner Brooke Soso on the massively profitable Netflix collection “Orange is the New Black.”

“Individuals had been bartenders nonetheless. Individuals had their second jobs nonetheless,” she stated on TikTok about actors who starred within the collection. “They had been f–king well-known as s–t — like internationally well-known, couldn’t go outdoors — however needed to maintain their second jobs as a result of they couldn’t afford to not. We couldn’t afford cabs to set.”

On he one hand, Cook dinner stated, “I can reside on carrots and water.” However he’s at risk of dropping his SAG medical health insurance, which covers his spouse and two babies, and he’s additionally nervous that the negotiation-stalling studios “will be capable to starve us out.”

One factor that perplexes Cook dinner is the criticism he has obtained.

“Plenty of the pushback that I get, the hate mail that I get, it’s from very conservative folks — and I’m not a radical leftist by any means,” he stated. “So it’s humorous to have this type of merciless world, like, ‘Get an actual job, cease complaining and get on with it.’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m normally not utterly against every thing you say, however there’s only a cruelty to this concept that [actors should] shut up and get to work for the billionaire.”

As Cook dinner famous, Disney CEO Bob Iger makes greater than $74, 175 a day.

“He’s by no means advised a great joke in his life. He’s by no means written a great joke in his life, you already know?” Cook dinner stated. “So who’re we defending right here? I feel folks really want to contemplate this.”