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I can't imagine many more projects tondonjust for fun.
Thats a lot of Elijah woods horror roles, things that looked fun.
So I'm sure that's why they did it
Yeah and even when actors get paid "low sums" it's usually like six figures still, at least regarding projects like Spy Kids.
And even if it was "just" five figures, if its above 50k and last less than a year to film, it's more than most people make and the actors who do these aren't exactly broke to begin with.
Orlando Bloom "only" got 175k for the lotr trilogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nHeZgepNw
If someone paid me 175k to fuck about as an elf in New Zealand for 438 days, I'd be willing to suck their dick on the spot. And I don't generally like sucking dick too much.
I'd say I feel bad for him considering how much money the LOTR trilogy pulled and how great he was in it (like everyone tbh), but at least he got a lot of recognition for it, being pretty much unknown to the world before LOTR and getting a lead role in Pirates right after.
Yeah, people like Ian McKellen got like 13 million, so that's a difference in a known vs relatively unknown actor, I guess.
Also, Cate Blanchett says she "got paid in sandwiches" and just wanted to work for Peter Jackson because of his previous movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ielt7A-Ebn4
He basically worked for exposure and in this case it worked. Yes 175k is a lot of money but for a big budget trilogy it’s definitely on the lower end. People also underestimate how long those shooting days are. It’s not uncommon for principal photography to have 16 hour shooting days. Shooting those movies back to back must have been tough for everyone on set.
It's also one of the few cases where it truly works and even then it wasn't guaranteed to work, because the movies could've easily flopped if they weren't well made.
But he took a gamble and it paid off. I'm happy for him. Still, sucks that production companies can lure actors into salaries this low - apparently even leads on some newer streaming series are having trouble making ends meet if they have to rent an apartment in LA, etc. In that regard, Bloom had it easy compared to some of the young actors these days (not to discredit the incredible achievement of surviving shooting 3 literal epics back to back).