I am a friend-of-a-friend of another Buffy actor, name not mentioned for privacy though those who know will know, and he is in the same boat of living in poverty and being entirely dependant on what scraps the residuals and con interviews can get him. He is very disabled and my ex trained his service dog for him as a handshake deal because he needed the dog but couldn’t afford anything else.
And knowing that made me realize that maybe these cushy actor jobs aren’t that cushy after all.