Reminds me of TLC accepting the Grammy(?) and being like, yeah, we’re broke, this whole industry is fucking bullshit.
HATE CAPITALISM
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.
I’m sorry for this, but it’s “should have”.
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.
Seems like a silly reason not to bother trying to get paid more though.
Orlando was straight out of school at the time.
“Rudy” should have got more.
Rudy hell, White Water Summer, Toy Soldiers. I mean I can go on. He was not small time actor by time this film was made.
Bloom making less makes sense since he was a new face in Hollywood.
Man. Imagine being on your first gig and you are just working alongside Sir Ian McKellan, John Rhys-Davies and Viggo Mortensen.
Goonies star too. He’s probably atill banking off it.
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.
14 months, not several years. They did it in one stint to avoid having to work around a bunch of scheduling conflicts with such a large cast. And a few short follow-up shoots later I believe.
More than a few follow up shots. The extra filming took place over three years. 2001 through 2003.
The median US salary is $65k.
four years of filming. He probably made about the same as a corporate director but less than a corporate vp.
While it’s more than a greeter at Walmart, it’s not megabucks.
Pay in the industry has dramatically decreased too. If you’re very successful as an actor you’ll get 3 gigs a year, probably averaging around 10 grand a role. And that’s VERY successful.
Sean here is in the star category and probably made 10x that.
That’s still not beating the average corporate salary.
Acting is hard, often 12 hour days 6 days a week with an hour off in 10 min chunks across the whole day is considered a light and easy schedule and most jobs pay 4 figures.
Long gone are the days you could do a commercial and it’d keep you afloat for 6 months.
How many fancy cocktail parties your parents had to go to? How many nice suites and high class escorts did they have to rent for them? How much coke did they have to bring to the after parties? Some jobs pay more but also have way more expenses.
