So many nice characters have been killed off as a result of the actor requested for a increase.
Advocating for your self at work is vital, and that features your wage.
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Sadly, some individuals expertise retaliation once they ask for a increase. Others take the denial as an indication that it is time to transfer on.
It additionally extends to Hollywood. Actors — in each massive roles and small ones — have had their requests for a pay bump denied.
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Typically, they’ve even misplaced their job over it. Different occasions, nevertheless, it is the actor’s alternative to go away a undertaking once they really feel their price is not being acknowledged.
Listed below are 15 actors who give up or have been fired after asking for extra money:
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Terrence Howard — who had a three-picture cope with Marvel — performed Rhodey/Battle Machine in Iron Man. Nonetheless, throughout sequel negotiations, he was solely provided 12.5% of the wage he’d initially been promised.
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On Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen, he stated, “It seems that the individual I helped grow to be Iron Man…took the cash that was purported to go to me and pushed me out.”
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He continued, “I referred to as my pal — that I helped get the primary job — and he did not name me again for 3 months.”
So, Howard left the undertaking, and Don Cheadle took over the function.
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Following the success of The Lizzie McGuire Film, Hilary Duff was in negotiations with Disney for a sequel.
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Initially, Disney promised her a $500,000 bonus as soon as the primary film made $50 million. Nonetheless, Susan Duff wished her daughter to obtain the bonus instantly.
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Susan instructed Leisure Weekly, “Disney thought they’d have the ability to bully us into accepting no matter provide they wished to make, they usually couldn’t.”
So, Disney selected to withdraw all the provide for a sequel, costing Hilary the $4 million wage she would’ve had in addition to the bonus.
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Susan stated, “Disney saved leaking stuff and utilizing undisclosed sources. And since we didn’t say something, it sounded prefer it was true. I believed it might run its course, however they saved coming at us. In my wildest desires, I can’t think about adults beating up on a 15-year-old child within the papers like they’ve.”
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Valerie Harper starred as Valerie Hogan on the Lorimar Productions sitcom Valerie for 2 seasons.
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Because the present’s rankings elevated, she requested a pay increase to $100,000 per episode in addition to 35% of the adjusted gross earnings. Lorimar turned her down, so she stopped displaying up for work.
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This tactic had been profitable for her earlier than. Previous to the second season of Rhoda, she acquired CBS to spice up her weekly pay from $10,000 to $17,500 by refusing to work in any other case.
She returned to set once they compromised at $65,000 an episode and 12.5% of the earnings. Nonetheless, per week later, they fired her.
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Lorimar additionally sued her for breach of contract for $70 million. She countersued each Lorimar and NBC for damages, requesting $180 million.
She instructed Individuals, “That is the worst factor that ever occurred to me. I really feel robbed and ripped off. There’s the sensation that Valerie Harper is that this grasping, clutching actress. That’s a bald-faced lie.”
Her fees towards NBC have been dropped, however she was awarded $1.4 million in damages from Lorimar after the jury dominated she’d been wrongfully fired. She was additionally awarded 12.5% of the present’s earnings.
The present was renamed Valerie’s Household and continued into the third season with out her. Her character was killed off, and Sandy Duncan joined the forged as Sandy Hogan, Valerie’s sister-in-law.
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For the following season, the present was renamed The Hogan Household.
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Grace Park performed Officer Kono Kalakaua on Hawaii 5-0 for seven seasons.
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Her wage was reportedly 10-15% decrease than what her costars Scott Caan and Alex O’Loughlin acquired, so earlier than the eighth season, she sought pay fairness.
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Nonetheless, when she and CBS have been unable to achieve an settlement, she determined to go away the present.
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Park’s Hawaii 5-0 costar Daniel Dae Kim — who performed Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly for seven seasons — additionally sought equal pay with Caan and O’Loughlin, who additionally reportedly obtain a share of the present’s earnings.
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He, too, declined to return for the eighth season when his request for pay fairness wasn’t met.
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In a Fb put up, he stated, “Although I made myself out there to come back again, CBS and I weren’t capable of conform to phrases on a brand new contract, so I made the troublesome alternative to not proceed.”
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Hugo Weaving performed Johann Schmidt/Pink Cranium in Captain America: The First Avenger. He additionally signed a three-picture cope with the promise that “the cash would develop every time.”
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Administrators Joe and Anthony Russo requested him to reprise the function in Avengers: Infinity Battle and Avengers: Endgame. Nonetheless, the cash they provided him was “a lot lower than [he] acquired for the very first one, and this was for 2 movies.”
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He instructed Time Out, “They stated, ‘It’s only a voice job, it’s not an enormous deal.’ I really discovered negotiating with them by way of my agent unattainable. And I didn’t actually wanna do it that a lot. However I might have achieved it.”
Within the films, Pink Cranium was recreated by way of CGI. Ross Marquand voiced him after filming, so that they used stand-ins on set.
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Suzanne Somers performed Chrissy Snow on Three’s Firm for 5 seasons.
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In 1980, she requested for her wage to be raised from $30,000 an episode to $150,000 so her pay would match what costar John Ritter made. Nonetheless, ABC solely provided a $5,000 increase.
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She missed filming for the following season’s third and fourth episodes, but it surely was reportedly because of an previous again damage.
The day earlier than Somers and her husband/supervisor Alan Hamel went again to renegotiate, he acquired a name from a pal with connections on the community: “They’re going to hold a nun within the market, and the nun is Suzanne.”
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He instructed The Hollywood Reporter, “The community was willing to do that as a result of earlier that yr the ladies on Laverne & Shirley had gotten what they requested for, they usually wished to place a cease to it. They’d destroy the chemistry on Firm to make some extent.”
Somers was fired from the present, and Jenilee Harrison was introduced in as Cindy Snow, Chrissy’s cousin.
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Somers stated, “Getting fired for asking for a increase wasn’t honest, however I landed on my ft, and I’ve achieved OK.”
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Lauren Cohan performed Maggie Greene on The Strolling Useless from 2011-2018.
After her first contract was up, it was time to renegotiation with AMC. She reportedly requested for equal pay along with her male costars.
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“That’s fairly normal renegotiation,” she instructed SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Dwell.
Nonetheless, the negotiations left her feeling “in some methods shocked,” so she “took that, how baffled [she] was, and thought, ‘Okay, effectively that is an indication. That is perhaps simply not a match anymore.'”
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She instructed Leisure Weekly, “To really feel like we weren’t lining up in so some ways I simply thought, “Okay, effectively, perhaps meaning one thing.”
When she left the present, nevertheless, she additionally left the door open for her character to return. In 2020, she returned, and she or he’s nonetheless there.
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She instructed the Hollywood Reporter, “I knew [Maggie] was going to come back again, we simply didn’t know precisely when. I mentally all the time had her in a quadrant of my mind and soul. [Showrunner Angela Kang] and I simply saved this dialog alive and versatile.”
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Robert Duvall performed Tom Hagen in The Godfather and The Godfather Half II.
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Nonetheless, he did not return for The Godfather Half III due to how rather more costar Al Pacino was paid.
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“I stated I might work simply in the event that they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that is high quality. However not three or 4 occasions, which is what they did,” he instructed CBS.
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To account for his absence, The Godfather Half III revealed that his character died earlier than the occasions of the film.
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In 1996, Will Smith performed Captain Steven Hiller in Independence Day.
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When director Roland Emmerich began proposing concepts for a sequel in 2011, Smith reportedly requested $50 million for a two-picture deal.
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In 2016, Emmerich lastly made a sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence. Nonetheless, Smith wasn’t invited again “as a result of he’s too costly.” Liam Hemsworth performed the brand new lead character.
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“He’d even be an excessive amount of of a marquee title,” Emmerich instructed the Unbiased.
Smith’s character was killed off earlier than the occasions of Independence Day: Resurgence.
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Maggie Roswell voiced Maude Flanders on The Simpsons from 1990-1999.
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She requested Fox to boost her wage from $1,500-$2,000 an episode to $6,000. Nonetheless, Fox solely provided her an additional $150 — which did not even cowl her flights from her dwelling in Denver to the recording studio in Los Angeles.
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She instructed the Los Angeles Instances, “I wasn’t asking for what the opposite forged members make. I used to be simply making an attempt to recoup all the prices I had in journey. In the event that they’d flown me in, I’d nonetheless be working.”
So, she give up, and Maude was killed off within the 2,000th episode “Alone Once more, Natura-Diddily.”
Nonetheless, in 2002, Roswell reached a cope with Fox. Since then, she’s been voicing Maude in flashbacks and as a ghost.
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Bruce Willis performed Mr. Church in The Expendables and The Expendables 2.
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He was purported to reprise the function in The Expendables 3. Reportedly, his preliminary wage was $3 million for 4 consecutive days on set in Bulgaria. Nonetheless, the actor requested $4 million as a substitute.
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Director Sylvester Stallone denied his request, so Willis dropped out of the film. Inside 72 hours, Harrison Ford was forged in his place.
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Benicio del Toro was director J.J. Abrams’ first option to play Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness.
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Del Toro entered into talks with Paramount, however he finally handed on the deal due to cash.
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The function went to Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Jonah Hill was in talks to play the Riddler in The Batman.
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Nonetheless, he reportedly requested for a $10 million wage — twice as a lot because the lead, Robert Pattinson, made.
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He and Warner Bros. failed to achieve a deal, and the function went to Paul Dano.
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And at last, Tobey Maguire performed Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002), however he virtually wasn’t within the sequel.
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He reportedly wished to barter the next wage for the sequel. Throughout pre-production, Columbia felt the again issues he reported have been really a negotiation tactic.
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So, to maintain the ball rolling, they recast him with Jake Gyllenhaal, who was additionally courting Maguire’s costar/ex-girlfriend Kirsten Dunst on the time.
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Nonetheless, Ron Meyer, the then-Vivendi Common president and Maguire’s future father-in-law, helped him get the function again.
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He finally made $17 million for the sequel.
