“The makeup artists were laughing at me because I was getting paid less than any of them.”
The actor said the low pay “didn’t matter” to her.
She wrote, “The experience was everything!”
He continued, “So the first thing was: ‘Holy crap.
And so that was my motivation after that.
It was just: ‘I got to get enough that the house doesnt get repossessed.'”
During last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike, she posted aTikTok, saying, “People were bartenders still.
People had their second jobs still.”
We couldn’t afford cabs to set!"
“I made $12,000 for doingHustle & Flow,” he said.
Well, they owned DJay, so guess what?
The performance royalties went to Paramount."
“The business don’t pay actors anything,” Terrence continued.
“Actors are struggling.”
Shooting took 23 days, and his compensation for the film was around $3,200.
6.Sharon Stone revealed that she wasn’t paid fairly for starring inBasic Instinct.
“I didn’t get paid to doBasic Instinct,” she toldCBC.
“I made a little bit of money.
Michael made $14 million and has points.
I made not enough money to buy my dress to go to the Oscars the next year.
I was in this weird limbo where I was suddenly famous, but didn’t have any money.”
Her performance won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
“I made $3,000.
to get to have health insurance, you have to make $5,000,” she shared.
They said, ‘That’s $160.’
I went, ‘Um, did you try my insurance?’
They said, ‘Mmm-hmm.’
I had an Academy Award, no health insurance."
After production ended, he returned to selling cellphones in a Minneapolis mall.
Either way, I cannot be working here,'" he recalled.
Barkhad quit that job on the day of the premiere.
9.Jamie Lee Curtis was paid $8,000 to star in the originalHalloweenmovie.
“All the sudden, I was going to JCPenney and buying Lauries wardrobe with $200.”
10.According toInsider, Oprah was paid $35,000 for playing Sofia inThe Color Purple.
Her performance was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
11.Jeff Daniels was paid $50,000 for his work in the ’90s comedyDumb and Dumber.
In comparison, costar Jim Carrey made $7 million.
Get a comedic actor.’
13.James Earl Jones was paid $7,000 to voice Darth Vader inStar Wars: A New Hope.
So he hires a guy born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan, who stutters.
And thats the voice.
And I lucked out."
… Its not about how much you get, its about how fair it is."
She also said that female actors “have to decide if youre willing to walk away from something.”
