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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Really shitty agent and dude been industry since he was a kid damn well should of known better. Holy shit Peter Jackson should be ashame of allowing such a thing to happen.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

If you read the article you can see it was intentional because the movie was risky and was everyone, it said Orlando bloom only got 175k.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 4 points 47 minutes ago

It being risky would justify low upfront pay with more on the backend. Not low pay period.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

Orlando was straight out of school at the time.

“Rudy” should have got more.