Jimmy Kimmel may be taking the summer off, but his show is looking to put some SAG actors to work—for a good cause.
An actor on X/Twitter shared a casting notice for available roles on Jimmy Kimmel Live! next month, and it appears the show intends to bring back a segment it introduced two years ago.
The casting notice calls for “actors who need SAG health insurance”—specifically those who are “one role away.” The Screen Actors Guild requires its members to earn an “eligibility threshold” of $26,470 annually in order to qualify for healthcare benefits.
The casting notice states that actors must be $1,401 or less away from reaching the threshold to be considered for the part.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! has done this before. In July 2022, guest host Kerry Washington led a segment in which she offered SAG members the chance to qualify for healthcare.
“We invited a few fellow real actors to the show tonight who are very close to qualifying for coverage,” Washington told viewers. “And they will get there if they deliver just one more line of dialogue on TV.”
Two actors were given “walk-on parts” on the show. One actor was just $40.87 away from qualifying, meaning she only needed to “utter a single word on the show” to reach the mark. A second actor was $487.17 away.
“You’re a stand up guy for this!!” the actor who posted the casting call on X wrote of Kimmel.
Kimmel is currently on his annual summer vacation, so it will likely fall to one of his guest hosts to introduce the segment, which the casting call notes will be taped sometime between August 12 and August 15.
The show hasn’t yet announced its guest host(s) that week, but the remaining names on this summer’s guest-host roster are Jeff Goldblum, RuPaul, Ryan Reynolds, and Hugh Jackman.
