Reminds me of TLC accepting the Grammy(?) and being like, yeah, we're broke, this whole industry is fucking bullshit.
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I didn't catch this when it happened, so I looked it up.
"Your manager is giving you dirty looks"... and that was before the "we're broke" part.
Good on ya lad, thanks for that. Exactly what I meant. Have a great night, friend!
Must have had a shit agent. I mean he was the star in Rudy it's not like he didn't have credits to his name. Also it's not like they couldn't have understood the character and his importance.
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.
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.
It being risky would justify low upfront pay with more on the backend. Not low pay period.
I'm sure hollywood accountants can still figure out how the movie lost money overall.
David Prowse died without ever receiving royalties from Return of the Jedi because Lucasfilm insisted it never made a profit, ever.
Orlando was straight out of school at the time.
“Rudy” should have got more.
So he made about 6-8x more than my parents made together in a similar time frame.
My heart weeps for him.
I get he probably got paid lower than the other actors, but 250k in 2003 is like 450k today. More than a large majority of the workforce makes in a decade.
He is talking like he was in poverty. Probably was just living beyond his means.
The 250k number is what he made for all of the films combined. Years of filming. For films that grossed almost 3 billion box office alone.