She posted a video in which she scans the statement-“I’m about to be so riiich!”-then reaches the grand total of twenty-seven dollars and thirty cents and shrieks, “WHAT?” With many television and movie sets shuttered, she was supporting herself with voice-over jobs, and she’d been messing around with TikTok. “I was, like, Oh, my God, it’s just so sad,” Glenn recalled.
The orchid-pink paper listed episodes of the show that she’d appeared on (“A Whole Other Hole,” “Trust No Bitch”) alongside tiny amounts of income (four cents, two cents) culled from overseas levies-a thin slice of pie from the show that had thrust her to prominence. Glenn is best known for playing the motormouthed, idealistic inmate Brook Soso on the women’s-prison series “Orange Is the New Black,” which ran from 2013 to 2019, on Netflix. In December, 2020, in the depths of pandemic winter, the actress Kimiko Glenn got a foreign-royalty statement in the mail from the screen actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA.
