Fonda’s Bum Rap

What a bum rap Jane Fonda is getting (Calendar Letters, May 8).

The readers who criticize $8-a-day wages for extras in “Gringo,” the movie her company is producing in Mexico, should do their homework before citing the actress for exploitation.

My company subcontracts a well-respected, Mexican-owned assembly plant. The average wage in the facility is 75 cents to $1 an hour, 10% of the U.S. equivalent. Most of these workers are skilled labor.

We have no right to use U.S. barometers when gauging the pay of the workforce in another country.

SCOTT STOGEL

Los Angeles