{"id":313355,"date":"2026-03-05T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:18:08","slug":"better-call-saul-star-john-christian-love-takes-up-amazon-driver-job-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313355\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Call Saul star John Christian Love takes up Amazon driver job to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Since the post, Love told Page Six he quit the job a few days ago because of medical issues and is looking for a different non-acting job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe rural routes were destroying my body,\u201d said Love, who suffers from scoliosis and Scheuermann\u2019s disease, which causes back pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cActing has never paid the bills on its own \u2013 not even with 11 episodes of Better Call Saul,\u201d Love said. \u201cI\u2019ve always had to grind regular jobs, and I pour 110% into every single one of them, just like I do with every role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Things were looking up in 2024 when he landed a role in the film Lone Wolf with Brian Cranston, Lily Gladstone and Chet Hank. However, the film ran out of funds and filming stopped in February 2025, he told Page Six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis just happened to be one of those bizarre cases where the production company ran out of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Love said he was not paid for the film and he wasn\u2019t likely to see a cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEvery lawyer says the same, you want us to go after a broke company? The Producers filed bankruptcy?\u201d he said on Reddit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Down but not out, Love told Page Six he continues to audition for roles and hopes to land a leading role in a feature film, whether it\u2019s a B-list or C-list film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The actor said he is still in touch with his Better Call Saul co-stars, like Rhea Seehorn, but prefers to work rather than ask for favours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to be like, \u2018Hey, can you do such and such favour for me?\u2019 I like my work, I just want it to speak for itself. And, you know, let that do the justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Love is confident he will return to acting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s what I love,\u201d Love told Page Six, \u201cBut I still got to pay bills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the post, Love told Page Six he quit the job a few days ago because of medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5813,414,1558,9442,3043,82648,31143,149344,19552,156,3112,5126,2882,111,139,69,12860,170273,7811,2737,57816,1120,61,810,4576,19135],"class_list":["post-313355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-acting","tag-amazon","tag-been","tag-better","tag-call","tag-christian","tag-delivery","tag-dried","tag-driver","tag-entertainment","tag-job","tag-john","tag-love","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-revealed","tag-saul","tag-since","tag-star","tag-survive","tag-takes","tag-to","tag-up","tag-work","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}