Top 10 Actor Salary Controversies
Top 10 Actor Salary Controversies
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Actors make a lot of money, there’s no question about it, but when some actors make more than others, things start to look a little suspicious. WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Actors Salary Controversies! But what will take the top spot on our list? Will it be the cast of “American Hustle”, Michelle Williams in “All the Money in the World”, or the cast of “Friends”? Watch to find out!
#10. Not A Lot of Dough for Gadot for “Wonder Woman” (2017)
#9. Strings Definitely Attached in “No Strings Attached” (2011)
#8. The Unequal Pay Files in “The X-Files” (1993-2002; 2016-)
#7. Wright Wronged in “House of Cards” (2013-)
#6. The Company Fights Back in “Three’s Company” (1977-84)
#5. Leaving Hawaii in “Hawaii Five-0” (2010-)
#4. Child Labor in “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008)
#3, #2, #1 ?
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Aren't their salaries based on screen time??
I feel sorry for those Simpsons actors
Women belong in the kitchen or the bedroom!!!
the actors frm Friends deserve not 1 million per episode, but as much as they want, 10, 100, even a billion, because this show is pure gold and i can watch it every day till i die, its hilarious 😀
actors are overpaid tools
It was found gal was paid equal half story whalberg even tytwoukdnt call em equal n they lie
Moulder skully equal bc when he went off air entire showdied
A Butch of rich cry babies
3 original MMPR actors payed very low wages asked politely for a raise promptly written out the series 🙂
Equal pay and being paid the same just because of your gender or race are two different things. In show business, it’s about draw power. The two that got written off that Hawaii 5-0 show had nothing to complain about!! I don’t watch the show but if I did, it wasn’t going to be because of them. I’ve never seen either one of them in anything can I can think of.
Like any job, you have to build your portfolio then negotiate!
Boo Hoo women can negotiate boo hoo
Let's see what ratings are on house of cards
Word to the wise, Brando once said "never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
Femmenists
I love the honorable mention of THE SIMPSONS!
I only get $20,000 a year! What are these people complaining about??
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Where’s Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene) from The Walking Dead
Should be called "When people dont know their market value and how to negotiate for it"
Gets paid 300000 dollars for your first big movie role for 3 months of work. Complains saying they are sexist. She wasn't even that good of actress in the movie, compared to Henry cavills experience and better acting skills. If she wants more money she needs to negotiate more.
How oppresed!!! These poor celebrities can't get a small loan of a million dollars, they have it harder than all of us combined 🙁
Most of these cases are not representative of the so-called "pay gap" in Hollywood. Many are examples of what happens when a a co-star believes they're more popular and more valuable then what they are, or, the result of an actor's agent failing to negotiate higher pay.
Each actor negotiates their own salary. If these women did not like the salary they were offered they could have refused the job.
Nobody feels sorry for them their millionaires and I laugh that they had no black women or man on here. They only care about the white women getting paid less nobody else
Was Gal Gadot really only paid $300'000 for her performance in Wonder Woman?!?! WTF man! That's truely repulsive!! I bet Chris Pine was paid more for his performance as a SUPPORTING character!
Gal Gadot is a dubious actress at best who caught a huge break with the role. The pay gap comes with a talent gap as well.
Isn’t it on the actor to negotiate the contract? Nobody is forcing the actor to do the show for that money.
WatchMojo is having a lot of fun with puns in this video
Thanks for perpetuating the pay gap myth, Mojo.
$1M per episode for Friends' cast was just too greedy. Now I know why they're just a bunch of losers now. It was not just them who worked so hard for this show. GREEDY PEOPLE!
The gender pay gap has not just to do with gender, but with bad agents lacking negotiation skills. Fun Friends fact: Even today, the 6 cast members get 20 Million a year from the syndication rights.
The wage gap is a myth at least in the western world. This hysteria is promoting a lie that pushes a feminist man hating dogma. Grow up.
Unsubbed..
i love Shameless but Emmy Rossum was out of line asking to get the same pay as a veteran like William H Macy. That guy is absolutely amazing and he's been paying his dues since the 80s. Emmy's resume isn't nearly as impressive. Odd how she didn't compare her salary to Carl, Ian or Lip (male actors of similar caliber as her). She should've got a bonus for the episode she directed but that's about it.
so more famous men are paid more then less famous women? I mean does any one care about the moves that have the more famous female lead whos paid more? Any Helly Berry in there?
Can the women not just get better agents it is there job to set this up? They negotiate for the man then the women if shes paid more we need to change both deals to compensate for it if the woman's paid more well we made deals and you have to honer them.
Some of these people (athletes and musicians included) get paid way too much as it is.
Or perhaps women are worse negotiators? Then again, people who get a few millions per year probably shouldn't complain about wanting even more.
TL:DW: Actresses complain about being paid less than their male co-stars because they draw much less box office. Demand that mathematics itself is sexist.
What about Hermione's actress (from Harry Potter) getting paid equally as Daniel Radcliffe but way more than Ron's actor when Hermione's role was equal to Ron's. Didn't point out the gender pay gap there Mr Feminist? Oh yeah, Ron is a male so it's ok he gets paid less. Afterall, it's never about their negotiation skills or the weight of their popularity. It's gender pay gap!! It's real!!