Only So Many Canadian Actors: Difference between revisions

You see, in [[Canada]], the government offers significant tax breaks and direct subsidies to Canadian-made TV shows, in exchange enforcing a "Canadian actors only" policy for the majority of roles. But there are only so many actors in Canada, especially young actors. The country already has a relatively small population to begin with (about 3740 million, roughlyas ''1/9''of that2023, ofroughly the US and 2 millionsame lessas than[[Tokyo]] justor [[California]]), and when you narrow the actors down to a specific age group (between 15 and 30, like most of the ones below), and then combine ''that'' with the fact that Canada has become a very popular shooting location for American producers on a tight budget, you're only left with a tiny handful of actors. Additionally, most of these actors often stay in Canada for the rest of their careers (though not always by choice). That said, some have managed to break out it; notably, [[Michael J. Fox]], [[Eugene Levy]], [[Mike Myers]], [[Elliot Page]], [[Anna Paquin]], [[Dan Aykroyd]], and [[Drake|Aubrey Graham]].

We only picked Canada as an example because that's where a rather large chunk of tropers<ref>Including one of the Mods.</ref> are from. But this phenomenon can be found in any country with a small enough dramatic community, where actors are either encouraged to stay because of heavy art subsidies or are forced to stay because of linguistic incompatibility with countries around them. You can also notice this in the some of the more niche branches (relative to film and TV anyways) of dramatic arts, there are so many Mummers dancers or Peking opera singers to go around.

* [[EllenElliot Page]]