Skins star Megan Prescott has said that when she joined OnlyFans during the pandemic, she only had £300 to her name.
Prescott starred as Katie Finch in the cult Channel 4 show, acting in 16 episodes of the noughties touchstone alongside her twin sister Kathryn.
But the 35-year-old actress has said in a new interview that her earnings on the explicit content sharing platform have far outpaced her Skins paychecks from back in the day.
Prescott signed up to the platform in 2020, when she was working at a distillery on a zero-hours contract and had spent years trying to make ends meet as an actor.
The result was a ‘stark’ financial difference; Prescott has made three times as much from her OnlyFans work as she did during her Skins days.
She told The Sun: ‘I’d spent so many years in acting, trying to get things moving and nothing [was] happening.’
Prescott continued: ‘Going on OnlyFans and realising all this content that I was making for free, people would pay for and people would like to pay for, just changed my entire point of view and it really did improve my creative outputs.’
She said friends had suggested the platform – where she charges £11 per month for nude content and personalised subscriber videos – since her explicit Skins scenes were circulating online for free.
Prescott said she is still pursuing acting, but that OnlyFans has given her the freedom to do so on her own terms and engage in her own creative pursuits.
She said: ‘I do think we are going to see more and more mainstream actors turning to making their own productions for things like OFTV [a free video platform featuring original content by OnlyFans creators] because it’s just a liberty that you don’t get.’
The Skins actress previously slammed the hit British drama for ‘sexualising her’ as a teenager, given that she starred in the show when she was just 16 and filmed explicit scenes with an actor almost double her age.
‘I’m treated better on OnlyFans than I was on Skins,’ she told Cosmopolitan, adding that people thought the actors made more money than they actually did on the show.
‘We worked it out by the hour once, and it was minimum wage,’ she said. ‘Of course, £400 a week to a 16-year-old I was like, “I’m rich.”
‘But when you look back… Our contracts also meant we don’t see any money from any streaming platforms.’