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Sometimes, undeniably famous, classical actors and actresses (or even loveable, talented, squeaky-clean child and/or teen actors/actresses) take roles in movies that are very against their type. Unlike the Classically Trained Extras, who lament that their talent is being wasted, or the small but legitimate roles of the One-Scene Wonder, or the Old Shame of roles taken when it was the only work available, this trope covers actors who are completely fine with the situation. Why? Money, dear boy. Obviously, movies are big business, and the right name at the top of the poster can be the difference between a hit and a flop. And it's hard to argue with the fact that, when offered buckets and buckets of cash for three weeks of shooting, anyone would be a fool not to take it. After all, acting is a volatile profession, as many starving artists can attest, and financial security for you and your family is nothing to turn from; it's not so much selling out, as selling well. And furthermore, most creative professions are overcrowded: for every wealthy and successful artist who can afford to sniff at jobs that are 'beneath' them, there are ten or more underworked ones who would kill for a chance at the income. On a cynical note, considering the state the entertainment industry and economy are in today, you shouldn't be surprised to see this more often. Most actors have been seen sliding down the perceived hierarchy of the entertainment field, with the most common "step down" being for actors who primarily work in film suddenly "slumming it" by taking roles on television. Still, if you do too many of these, you run the risk of having a rather strange IMDb record and irrevocably ruining your reputation as a creative thespian; so much potential and talent wasted. Some artists, however, can turn this to their advantage: a common reason cited by many successful artists who engage in this trope is that a high-paying job that doesn't greatly interest them means that they have more money to put into funding and appearing in lower-budget but more creatively appealing ones. To be clear, however, there is no shame at all for doing a movie for the money, and if the movie happens to be a great one, artistically or popularly, all the better. Even if it is for the money, the level can be kept high and professional and they can turn out something great (like the example with Coppola and The Godfather). And just because an actor or director only took a movie for money doesn't mean they'll necessarily dislike the end result. Therefore, not all examples of this trope are supposed to mean that an actor sold out. They could have had a very good reason to accept a role for monetary reasons, such as needing the money to pay off loans or medical bills. If it ends up a mediocre, run of the mill production, that's also excusable. People in creative jobs need an income the same as anyone else, and in fact, many of the greatest popcorn flicks of all time are great primarily because the studio shelled out the money to get actors and directors who would rather be doing something else, but who were still prepared to give the audience a good performance. However, should a cash-in movie end up unwatchably bad, both the audience and the critics are likely to be notably less forgiving than they would be while judging a bad movie with original, artistic premise marred by flawed execution. As a result, rather paradoxically, an artist who takes the job for the money is perhaps best trying to put in a decent (or at least entertaining) performance even in a movie that doesn't match up to their standards. Thus, they're likely to elicit more respect from the audience if they Took the Bad Film Seriously or end up Chewing the Scenery with Ham and Cheese than if they took the money but made it clear through their performance that they couldn't care less for anything but the paycheck. This is also the reason for the percentage of high-quality foreign artists appearing in American film and TV productions of varying quality: Hollywood, even at its most cheapskate, tends to pay much better than any other film industry in the world; and TV productions, with multi-million dollar deals and syndication checks (for shows that last long enough) commonplace, can allow you to be a lot more choosy for the next few years. Similar to getting a healthy paycheck, some actors will just want to do something "their kids can watch", the kind of roles most actors seek usually being dark and not appropriate for minors. A common theme—especially among older actors and actresses—stems from growing up during hard economic conditions, either from a poor economy as a whole or from family hardships. The fear that "The Next Job" may not come, as it often failed to do for their family, drives them to take roles they might not otherwise be interested in. And, again, they're not exaggerating: any actor, young and old, always deals with extremely uneven income flow with absolutely no hard guarantees for the future. There's also the common practice of recognizable actors turning up in indie films of varying quality "for scale". The term "for scale" means the minimum daily rate for actors guaranteed by the Screen Actors Guild, thus the opposite of this trope. When more notable actors do this, it's usually because they wanted to establish themself in a dramatic role (like the example with Dakota Fanning and Hounddog, where her character infamously got raped). This doesn't stop them from becoming controversial among people, though. As a general rule, if a recognizable name turns up in a movie featured on MST3K or RiffTrax or a "pretentious" low-budget indie film, or has a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for one of their films listed in their "Accolades" section on Wikipedia, this trope is almost certainly why. Compare and contrast Doing It for the Art (when artistic value and/or achievement is the primary motivator), and Awesome, Dear Boy (when the actor takes the role for the coolness of it, regardless of how crappy the work is), Vacation, Dear Boy (where they work on the project so they can go to a special location) and One for the Money; One for the Art (where a creator uses the money earned from a purely commercial project to finance one that's more personal and artistic). See also Contractual Obligation Project, Paying Their Dues, I Was Young and Needed the Money (when this trope is given as the excuse for Old Shame), Questionable Casting, and Took the Bad Film Seriously. Not to be confused with Only in It for the Money, which is when this is the excuse a character uses in-story. Also notice that if a great actor is in a crappy movie, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's in it just for the money; contrast Awesome, Dear Boy and So My Kids Can Watch. Examples |
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In-universe, in Episodes where Matt LeBlanc is forced to take a job as a game show host because he owes a lot of tax money, and needs to pay it off fast. | |
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Peter Tork very much falls into this trope. He had the richest musical background of the original group, but like all of them was sidelined by session musicians and got fewer lead vocals than the other three. That's why he was the first to quit. This led to a wild rollercoaster ride that saw him lose his Laurel Canyon mansion (where reputedly David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash first performed together at a party), then serve a prison sentence for drug possession, then take oddball jobs like a singing waiter and a teacher at a small private high school as he tried to revive his music career. Debt finally convinced him to go along with the 1986 reunion, although he seems to have started enjoying himself after that. | |
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Similarly, he was in the cheesy Overdrawn at the Memory Bank entirely due to his support of public television. He was also the only bright spot in the entire movie, and when Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on it shortly after his death, they went out of their way to point out that they respected Julia and were mocking the movie itself, not his performance. | |
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This is the primary reason why Ken Penders went to court over the characters and concepts he created for Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). While he claims that this was to also bring awareness to the other writers and artists shammed by Archie over reprinting rights, many fans claim that this was more of a money grab for a writer who is clearly trying to regain what he had in the past. Head writer Ian Flynn has pretty much stated that the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Unite is because of this trope, that had Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide not happen nor prove popular, the Mega Man (Archie Comics) series would have been canceled. |
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Alan Napier described this as his reason for playing Alfred in Batman (1966). He had no interest in the series until his agent mentioned a salary of over $100,000. Though Napier expressed pride and fondness for the role later on. | |
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John Lydon/Johnny Rotten said quite bluntly that The Sex Pistols reunion tour in the mid-'90s was for "your money." The tour was even called "Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Filthy Lucre." Lydon's late-2000s ads for butter products were simply done so he could fund a Public Image Ltd. reunion without a record deal. | |
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Julia "Jules" Robinson, from Married At First Sight (the Australian version) admitted she only went on the show for the money, and stated: She's also admitted some of her public appearances post-series were simply done for the paycheck and with Brutal Honesty, said it was simply as much a job as being in the limelight. |
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When promoting Ender's Game on The Tonight Show, Jay Leno asked Ford about his involvement with The Expendables 3. Ford said "They asked me if I wanted to be in the movie, they gave me a reason that I should be...", to which Leno responded by rubbing his thumbs and fingers together, signifying "money". Ford nodded in response and said "That's a good enough reason." | |
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He continues doing big-budget Hollywood movies for this reason, despite not really getting the "American humor" and accusations by the Asian-American community that he's "selling out" by playing the funny Chinese man. The massive salary enables him to fund his Asian movies as well as continue his charitable work. He has said he prefers the indie Hong Kong dramas that he works on, such as Shinjuku Incident, which his Hollywood films help pay for. | |
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About Have Gun – Will Travel, Richard Boone said: | |
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Once Bettany got upgraded to a more physical role as Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron, he joked that "now they want me to work for my money versus turn up for 45 minutes in a darkened studio and [act] Jarvis". | |
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Eamonn Holmes explained his appearance on Mongrels by saying he didn't even look at the script, only the fee. | |
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While starring in House, Hugh Laurie openly spoke about not wanting to be locked into a long-term contract and disliking being away from his family for months at a time. Fox kept upping his salary until he was the most highly paid dramatic TV actor in the world. | |
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The Great British Bake Off: Mel has confessed that she joined Bake Off in the first place largely because she and her husband were so broke that they had to sell their home. After seven series, the show moved from the BBC to Channel Four thanks solely to the commercial channel's ability to offer more money. ITV also made a fairly high offer, but that was contingent on the production company being able to bring along the presenters and judges... which didn't go over all that well. In fact, immediately after the Channel Hop was made public, Mel and Sue stated in a characteristically punny joint statement to the effect that they weren't going to "follow the dough".note They also weren't at all happy to have been ambushed with the news on short notice, and had previously voiced grave doubts that the show would be able to maintain its high standards on a commercial broadcaster. As for the judges, Mary came to the same decision as Mel and Sue, putting out a statement that she was staying with the BBC out of loyalty and thanks for the broadcaster giving her a career boost. Paul, on the other hand, decided to stay with Bake Off and move to Channel Four. |
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Great Expectations was only written because Dickens's magazine 'All The Year Round' was doing poorly and the only thing that would revive it was a serialized Dickens novel. | |
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There's a lot of European football/soccer teams which often try and invoke this trope to get reputable players, the idea being those good players will give the club instant success. This also explains why such non-traditional soccer markets such as Russia, Ukraine, and all of the rich countries of the Arabian Peninsula (even tiny Bahrain and Qatar!) can attract big names — for players who sign with clubs in the Arab regions, isolation and/or scorching hot weather are not a problem when oil money goes straight into your pocket. China, the fastest-growing economy, also hires a lot of good if aging stars who sign on for similar reasons. | |
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This is also the reason the late Joanie "Chyna" Laurer became a pornographic performernote That and a pretty bad drug habit, same for Sytch below. | |
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Sting had no interest in wrestling as a youth and didn't even know what it was because, according to him during his appearance on ''The Ross Report'', he lived in an area where wrestling wasn't shown on TV. He heard the name Hulk Hogan but didn't know who he was until he started working out in his gym. When Borden was approached to become a wrestler, he admits that only did it for the money and fame. Needless to say, he eventually developed a genuine love for wrestling. With that in mind, Sting's talents don't come cheaply (he was reportedly the highest-paid wrestler in WCW for many years, to the point where Scott Hall referred to his initial offering in 1996 as "Sting money") and the reason he left TNA in 2014 and finally joined WWE at least ten years too late was that TNA was in a financial mess and could no longer afford to pay him, along with many other of its top talent. AJ Styles, who many regard as Sting's Spiritual Successor (aided by the fact that Sting more-or-less passed the torch to him at Bound for Glory 2009), has a similar story. He initially got into the business because of the money, and when he learned that you don't make money in wrestling, at least not at first, it was already too late — he had already fallen in love with it. All this being said, this trope has come into play in his career: the first time was during the aftermath of the RF video scandal for Ring of Honor, in which AJ chose to stick with TNA because they paid betternote Around this time he also turned down a developmental deal from WWE, for the same reason. Jim Cornette, co-owner and booker of WWE's developmental promotion (at the time) Ohio Valley Wrestling, has said that Styles was smart to turn down the offer, saying that AJ needed no more training (to wit, when Styles did finally make it to WWE he was one for the few people judged to be TV-ready when he was signed and completely bypassed NXT) and was better off being a featured guy in TNA than getting lost in the WWE system. This being said, he loved both companies equally, and perhaps stuck around in TNA far longer than he should have due to that. However, during TNA's Audience-Alienating Era, the constant creative hamstringing the company put him (and many of his close friends/coworkers) through finally got to him. So when TNA's dire financial straits caught up to them and they offered him a contract with a forty percent pay cut, AJ finally said enough and left. Two years later, after AJ made a lot of money with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the indie circuit, TNA broke the bank trying to offer him a deal that everyone knew they couldn't back. Unfortunately for them, AJ chose WWE's offer over theirs. |
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The Simpsons: Harry Shearer is of two minds about the money he makes from the show, saying that he and the cast get paid too much and too little at the same time (too much, since they really do get paid an obscene amount, and too little because the amount is still a minuscule fraction of what their work makes for Fox). He's been highly critical of the show's quality, he has never done a DVD Commentary, and the actors (himself included) are some of the highest-paid in animation. This may be true for most of the cast, given their infamous salary disputes with Fox over the decades that led to them being the highest-paid voice actors on TV. Matt Groening, despite his producer credit, always sided with the actors during these fights... until Fox threatened to cancel the show outright unless the actors took a pay cut. This is part of the reason Matt Groening made The Simpsons at all. Fox originally approached him about doing a cartoon version of his indie comic Life in Hell, but then at the last minute, he learned that Fox was planning to make him sign away all of his rights to the series (this included giving Fox executives creative control over the original comic itself). Unwilling to give up Life In Hell, but still wanting that sweet Hollywood money, Matt hastily sketched a family-based heavily upon his own (including the names). The rest is history. Also an in-universe example in "The Book Job", in which Homer, Bart, and some others write a book purely to make money, while Lisa, trying to write a book for the love of writing, gets into a serious case of writer's block. Meanwhile, the financially-driven book winds up being so good that Homer and the others end up caring more about the final work than the money they stand to gain from it. Also happens in-universe in "Homer To The Max", where a show in the mid-season lineup is All in the Family 1999, which has Carroll O'Connor reluctantly reprising the role of Archie Bunker: |
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Goldberg hadn't even been the first choice for Sister Act (which was conceived as a vehicle for Bette Midler) but the movie was such a huge hit that she was immediately approached to star in a sequel. She agreed in exchange for not only $7 million but also studio financing for a pet project of hers, a film adaptation of the stage musical Sarafina!. | |
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While some of the women on Playboy want a push on their careers, most probably want the paycheck - helps that sometimes the cover model will get a bonus based on how many copies her issue sells. | |
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For Titanic, James Cameron hired the Russian research ship Akademik Mstislav Keldysh for an expedition to the Titanic wreck site, and kept the ship and crew on to serve as set and extras once principal photography started. The Keldysh crew agreed to be in the film because the Russian economy was in tatters following the collapse of the USSR and they needed work. | |
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Ryan Stiles admitted in an interview that, despite having a fear of flying, he was willing to fly to the UK to do Whose Line Is It Anyway? because at the time he desperately needed the money. | |
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Gail Kim hasn't been shy about mentioning how much she prefers TNA to WWE. TNA made her a star; she all but created their Knockouts division, was their first Knockouts champion, and actually headlined a main event of Impact. However, after a pretty nasty contract dispute, she decided to go back to WWE where she was basically turned into scenery. When she realized they would give her three times the money for about a third of the work, she thought she could deal with it. In the end, she couldn't. She quit WWE in 2011 with less than two months to go on her contract and went back to TNA. This was also after she married a celebrity chef, so money was no longer an issue. | |
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Dickens, like many other authors at the time, was also paid per installment leading to some of his longer works like Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Our Mutual Friend. | |
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Betsy Palmer appeared in Friday the 13th (1980) because she was in desperate need of a new car. After she read the script she called the film "a piece of shit". Like Palmer above, she eventually expressed pride and fondness for the role later on, going as far as to appear in horror conventions several years before her passing. | |
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David Slade, who publicly blasted the Twilight franchise prior to signing on to do Eclipse, had to apologize for his comments later on. Given the budget for Hard Candy, he can be forgiven for invoking this trope. | |
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Tammy Lynn Sytch also turned to pornography later in her career, first through pay websites and later signing a full-on deal with Vivid. | |
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Especially confirmed in the case of Firewall; "I had to do it. They gave me so much money, it would've just been rude." | |
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Gilbert Hernandez has openly admitted that he only did Fatima: The Blood Spinners because Zombie Apocalypse stories were fashionable and he thought that it might sell beyond his usual fanbase (it didn't). | |
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Jim Davis has infamously admitted that this trope was the sole reason behind the creation of Garfield. | |
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It has been claimed by several close associates and friends that one of the biggest reasons Ian Fleming created James Bond was that he needed a way to look after his brand new wife and baby whilst maintaining his luxurious and exotic jet-set party lifestyle, his holiday home in Jamaica (that was a money-sink for ten months of the year) and his many (eventually fatal) vices such as his seventy a day smoking habit and borderline alcoholic drink intake. It didn't help that Ann Fleming was just as keen to live the rich and glamorous life as her husband. | |
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In Lil Formers, this is Devastator Jr's sheepish excuse to Devastator Sr (G1) to why he went on show in Bayformers. | |
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Robert Graves claimed he wrote I, Claudius and Claudius the God for this reason. This was his stated motive for writing all of his novels; he considered himself primarily a poet but was plagued with money problems throughout his life. |
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Donald F. Glut, one of the writers for The Transformers, has admitted to disliking the series, and said that he did it strictly for the money: | |
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The same can be said for Sting's former tag team partner the Ultimate Warrior, who has also admitted that he never watched wrestling and only got involved for the money. He infamously had many monetary disputes with Vince McMahon that resulted in him leaving on bad terms multiple times. | |
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L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz series repeatedly tried to end the franchise, which bored him, only to repeatedly come crawling back once his other non-Oz books failed to sell. | |
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This is why Deadwood star John Hawkes played what was essentially a bit part in season six of Lost — his role was literally just repeating what another actor said and for that, he got paid a lot and filmed in Hawaii. | |
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After losing the WWWF World Title to Ivan Koloff in 1971, Bruno Sammartino had fully intended on retiring from the wrestling business due to numerous injuries. He spent two years out of the spotlight, working occasionally for promoters he liked. Vince McMahon Sr. offered him an unprecedented contract to come back that arguably made him the highest-paid man in the industry at that point, as well as a part-time road schedule. | |
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Miracle of Sound sometimes has to make songs based on upcoming games in order to keep himself afloat. | |
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Parodied in MAD magazine's satire of Rocky III. In the second-to-last panel, we see a few pairs of eyes in the darkness of the fight's audience, with Speech Bubbles: "Yep, he set himself up for another sequel." "Why does he do it?" "The same reason we ALL do it!" In the final panel, the speakers are revealed to be movie characters, among them, Brody from Jaws, James Bond and Darth Vader. They cry in unison, "MONEY!!!!" | |
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Joe Rogan once referred to Fear Factor, which he hosted, as "Joe Gets Paid". | |
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Later in his career, Harris often appeared in second-rate films such as Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) and Strike Commando II. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic loves to accuse big-name actors of this when they appear in the schlock he has to review. All for fun, of course. This includes Abe Vigoda when he appeared in Good Burger, Christopher Plummer in Rock-A-Doodle, and Christopher Lee in Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch. | |
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This was the reason Christine Weston Chandler created Sonichu, holding the belief that this character would become a big hit. The Trolls were quick to tell her that's not how things work. | |
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In a behind the scenes featurette for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Michael Biehn stated that he did Rex Colt's voice work for a paycheck and not much else. However, much like the game itself, the featurette was very tongue-in-cheek, and Biehn also said he had quite a lot of fun recording the more...colorful lines of his character. | |
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The Sheik kept wrestling when he was well past his prime, since he had lost money on some investments. | |
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Jeremy Heath-Smith, the chief executive of Core Design, was very open about what motivates him to keep assembling new teams for yet another Tomb Raider game. On the other hand, he was always making sure all the team members get fat and even slices of the money made by the studio for the harrowing work to push yet another game in 8 months. He is still fondly remembered by all the members of the staff. | |
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Brenda Hampton, creator of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, has responded to the poor critical reception of the show by saying she'd rather have good ratings than good reviews. | |
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Strippin did a video in order to help promote Divergent because he would get enough money to pay two months' worth of rent. He would later go on to apologize for the video on Reddit and pull it, saying it was shit and that he only uploaded it to make sure he'd get paid. | |
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Alone in the Dark (2005): Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Tara Reid. | |
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Ben Ramsey, writer of the poorly-received anime adaptation Dragonball Evolution, admitted as much and apologized to fans when reached by an interviewer. "So I’m not blaming anyone for Dragonball but myself," he said. "As a fanboy of other series, I know what it’s like to have something you love and anticipate be so disappointing." | |
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Later on as Molly Holly she was WWE's resident Diva Butt-Monkey (largely due to her unwillingness to be Ms. Fanservice like the other women they had) but she ended up staying in WWE because it was good money. After a breast cancer scare in 2005, she realized how unhappy she really was there and when WWE refused to let her do the one thing that would have made it bearable for her (a Heel–Face Turn, as she never liked being a heel and had wanted to be a good role model) she asked for her release and retired from wrestling. She's now working for WWE as an agent/producer and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021, and even made a (very brief) return to the ring in the 2022 Royal Rumble. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie: Featuring the voice talents of Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, and Eric Idle, among others, in what can best be described as an 80-minute toy commercial. They were all in it for the money. Welles told his biographer about the film, "I play a big toy who does horrible things to a bunch of smaller toys." Idle admitted in his book The Greedy Bastard Diary that he had hated every minute of production. "Why did I do it, again? Oh, right, they offered me oodles of cash." He's also said that he never even watched the movie, and makes a habit out of it with such roles. It is rumored that Leonard Nimoy was so embarrassed about it that he refused to address it for years afterward, whether in interviews or at science-fiction conventions. Only Michael Bay's interest in casting him as The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen prompted him to talk about his role, and then only briefly (and he also said that Bay could call him up if he wanted to, but Bay ultimately went with Tony Todd). Bay finally called up Nimoy to cast him as Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. That said, this negativity wasn't true of all the celebrities in the movie; Robert Stack and Judd Nelson were in it to get paid and embraced their roles; Robert Stack (according to some production staff) liked the movie and Judd Nelson reprised his role for Transformers: Animated 20 years later. On the Transformers film, Hugo Weaving has casually admitted to phoning in his performance as Megatron. He seems guilty about it. Michael Bay got passive-aggressive about this trope. |
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AJ Styles, who many regard as Sting's Spiritual Successor (aided by the fact that Sting more-or-less passed the torch to him at Bound for Glory 2009), has a similar story. He initially got into the business because of the money, and when he learned that you don't make money in wrestling, at least not at first, it was already too late — he had already fallen in love with it. All this being said, this trope has come into play in his career: the first time was during the aftermath of the RF video scandal for Ring of Honor, in which AJ chose to stick with TNA because they paid betternote Around this time he also turned down a developmental deal from WWE, for the same reason. Jim Cornette, co-owner and booker of WWE's developmental promotion (at the time) Ohio Valley Wrestling, has said that Styles was smart to turn down the offer, saying that AJ needed no more training (to wit, when Styles did finally make it to WWE he was one for the few people judged to be TV-ready when he was signed and completely bypassed NXT) and was better off being a featured guy in TNA than getting lost in the WWE system. This being said, he loved both companies equally, and perhaps stuck around in TNA far longer than he should have due to that. However, during TNA's Audience-Alienating Era, the constant creative hamstringing the company put him (and many of his close friends/coworkers) through finally got to him. So when TNA's dire financial straits caught up to them and they offered him a contract with a forty percent pay cut, AJ finally said enough and left. Two years later, after AJ made a lot of money with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and the indie circuit, TNA broke the bank trying to offer him a deal that everyone knew they couldn't back. Unfortunately for them, AJ chose WWE's offer over theirs. | |
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A Strange Loop: In-Universe. Usher the aspiring playwright has an agent that is pushing him to ghost-write a Tyler Perry "gospel play," but Usher hates Tyler Perry and all his works. Finally Usher caves and says he'll do it, "but only for the money." | |
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Ray Combs hosted Family Challenge because he was deep in debt from his comedy clubs closing, a car accident, and being let go from Family Feud. | |
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His Far Cry movie managed to have Til Schweiger, one of Germany's highest-rated actors. He told German gaming magazine GameStar in an interview that he was in it because Uwe Boll is apparently a very pleasant guy to work with as a director. | |
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BloodRayne, featuring Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez and Ben Kingsleynote although he did also jump at the chance to play a vampire. | |
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Danny Slavin from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy stated that the only reason he agreed to play Leo was so he could make money to go to law school. He only returned for the Power Rangers Wild Force episode "Forever Red" as a favor to the show's producer. | |
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Dua Lipa is an artist whose tour schedule falls into this trope; incidentally, her single "Break My Heart" is both One for the Money; One for the Art simultaneously. Incidentally, it was very much a moment of this for Ariana Martin, the stunt double for her in her single "Physical"'s video. | |
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Brad Guigar has stated that the reason the original Evil, Inc. ended in favor of the more erotic spin-off was that they're more profitable. | |
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During an online chat about the 2006 Poseidon remake, Richard Dreyfuss outright admitted he did the film for the money, answering the questions "What attracted you to this film?" with "The money" and "Did anything in particular stand out about it?" with "The money they were offering me." His paycheck for the film was enough for him to take a break from acting and teach for a few years, although at the time he said he was done for good. | |
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Matthew Goode said that Leap Year was "turgid" and the only reasons he did it were for money and so he could see his family more often. | |
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Shaquille O'Neal in Kazaam. As the man himself put it: | |
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale: Starring Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Claire Forlani, Ray Liotta, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman and Burt Reynolds (see above). | |
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The producers of Lost managed to get almost every main character back for at least one episode in the sixth and last season. The exception was Mr. Eko, as actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje asked for too much money. | |
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Game Grumps: Arin has gone on record, numerous times, that he will never "stop" doing Game Grumps and that he fully intends to die, on camera, doing Grumps. His justification, when they and Ben Schwartz are playing Super Castlevania IV? When the are playing The Wacky World Of Miniature Golf, Arin begins venting his frustrations with the game's Fake Difficulty at Eugene Levy, who voiced the narrator. Dan is quick to defend him with this: |
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Of course, this leads to some bizarre logic on Reynolds' part. He took on one role just for the money and was so ashamed of the result that he fired his agent. That film was the career resurrecting Boogie Nights. | |
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Comics great Fabian Nicieza once talked about his role in writing the poorly-received comic book NFL SuperPro: "I was handed the concept and character, including his basic origin. I don't know if that was all the NFL's creative work or a combination of Marvel editorial and the NFL. I didn't ask. I just wanted Jets tickets." | |
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In an interview prior to production of Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, David Graf (who played Eugene Tackleberry) said he'd gladly sign on for as many Police Academy films as they planned to make for the sake of a good paycheck, having come to appreciate the financial upside to movie work while attending a swanky Hollywood party, and at the same time discussing with his wife how their utilities were about to be cut off. True to his word, Graf appeared in all seven films. | |
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Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman of RedLetterMedia state in their DVD Commentary for The Recovered that making the film was like recording a wedding video because it was not a passion project. They just wanted to make a low-budget horror film that they could easily shoot and sell for a profit. However, they ultimately couldn't help inserting things that interested them rather than what mainstream audiences would want to buy. As a result, their "just for the money" film turned out extremely unmarketable. | |
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Stallone also said that Rocky V, which he admits that wasn't very good, was done because: "I'm greedy — what can I tell you." | |
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He also agreed to guest host an episode of Have I Got News for You (a British satirical news quiz which, by his own admission, he had never heard of before) because he and his wife were in Europe buying horses and he appreciated being offered a quick paying gig in the middle of such an expensive trip. | |
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Then-well-known stage actors James Daly and Louise Sorel, who guest-starred together in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Requiem for Methuselah" as Flint and Reyna, respectively. Both thought the series was childish and cartoony and later both admitted the only reason they did the episode was the paycheck. | |
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An early magazine interview with The Who utilized a format where each band member filled in a form answering a standard set of questions. John Entwistle's stated "Personal Ambition" was "To be rich." His "Professional Ambition"? "To be rich." A sad twist to this is that Pete Townshend partially took The Who on the road in the late 1990s to help Entwistle recover from financial problems he had at the time (and partly to distract John from his cocaine habit). Unfortunately, Entwistle died of a heart attack aggravated by cocaine usage. |
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Until the 19th Century almost all composers were employed to write music for wealthy patrons or the church. This includes Johann Sebastian Bach, who worked for Prince Johann Ernst of Sachsen-Weimar, and Joseph Haydn, who spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family. Most of the masterpieces of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were also originally commisioned by noblemen or wealthy merchants. | |
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The Good Place: Manny Jacinto, who plays Jason, admits he took the role because he was broke at the time. D'Arcy Carden was a more downplayed version of this trope, admitting that as a struggling actor, she was willing to take almost anything at the time she was offered the part, but her dream was to be on a Mike Schur show anyway. Overlaps with Awesome, Dear Boy. |
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In an interview promoting the film 28 Days (no, not that one), the interviewer asked Sandra Bullock why she chose to star in it. She promptly answered that she needed the money. The interviewer started to laugh but stopped short when he noticed Ms. Bullock was serious. | |
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A lot of top talent who were pushed relatively early in their career have displayed this attitude. Brock Lesnar is an especially notable case — he was hotshotted to the main event within his first year in the WWE and is a massive draw, but he has never made it a secret that the only reason he ever got involved with the business was for the cash. In fact, his post-UFC return to the WWE was motivated solely by Vince McMahon's offer to let him work part-time for full-time pay. His future wife Sable later admitted that she never cared about wrestling and only used the business to get money and become famous. Ditto for Goldberg — who in fact wrestled his last match in his first run with the WWE with Lesnar, when both were leaving (Lesnar for football, Goldberg because he was unhappy with the company's use of him). | |
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Comedian Doug Stanhope proudly says he hosted the final season of The Man Show strictly for the money, sahibg in his stand-up act: "If you were offered $100,000 to kill a dying show, you're a fucking idiot if you turn it down!" and comparing it being on the last helicopters when Americans were fleeing Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. | |
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The West Wing: Richard Schiff hated the storyline for Toby Ziegler in the last season, feeling it was a betrayal of the character. He only stayed on the show because the producers agreed to pay him a full season's salary even though he only appeared in roughly half of the episodes. | |
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A major reason Michael Nesmith usually declines Monkees reunions is because of inheriting his late mother Bette's fortune for inventing liquid paper, making him independently wealthy. He is also hesitant to step away from his Pacific Arts corporation for too long, for fear that the small company may unravel (a fear only compounded by problems with PBS, who bought the company in The '70s, and in which Michael sued successfully in The Nineties). | |
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Van Williams, best known for starring as The Green Hornet, only pursued acting gigs for money as he didn't care about the craft and detested the politics involved in film and TV production. Once he found investments and commercial ventures that were more lucrative, he left the industry entirely. | |
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Supposedly, lead singer Tarja Turunen's focus on money was the reason she was kicked out of the band Nightwish. | |
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When asked why he did Stargate, Jaye Davidson said, "I needed the money." Originally, he had no intention of acting again after The Crying Game. So when he was offered a role in Stargate, he insisted on a $1 million salary, figuring there'd be no way they'd be willing to pay him that much. But his offer was accepted, and he decided that it'd be nice to have some financial security, so he took the role. Ditto for James Spader, who found the script "awful". |
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Also happens in-universe in "Homer To The Max", where a show in the mid-season lineup is All in the Family 1999, which has Carroll O'Connor reluctantly reprising the role of Archie Bunker: | |
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This is part of the reason Matt Groening made The Simpsons at all. Fox originally approached him about doing a cartoon version of his indie comic Life in Hell, but then at the last minute, he learned that Fox was planning to make him sign away all of his rights to the series (this included giving Fox executives creative control over the original comic itself). Unwilling to give up Life In Hell, but still wanting that sweet Hollywood money, Matt hastily sketched a family-based heavily upon his own (including the names). The rest is history. | |
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Head writer Ian Flynn has pretty much stated that the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Unite is because of this trope, that had Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide not happen nor prove popular, the Mega Man (Archie Comics) series would have been canceled. | |
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This was her declared motivation for starring in Executive Decision. It evidently had nothing to do with the quality of the film itself (she simply didn't want to do it) but changed her mind when Warner Bros. offered her a $1 million salary for the role of a stewardess who helps the team. She quickly signed up for it. | |
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Bevin Bru, known mainly for her role as Angelique "Angie" Martin on Batwoman (2019) largely took roles because of this trope, with most of her roles being small ones, mainly co-starring, taken as she was starting out; she's only been acting since 2012. She's admitted to it as not being a bad thing. | |
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Charles M. Schulz freely admitted that he agreed to Peanuts endorsement and merchandising deals so he could have more money for his various philanthropic projects. | |
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She received a record salary for appearing in Catwoman (2004), which flopped at the box office. She accepted the "Worst Actress" Razzie with her Oscar (for Monster's Ball) in her other hand. This film has a strange history; before Berry was attached it was a generic superhero film. After getting her, it became a vanity film for Berry, and they shoehorned in the Catwoman angle. Perhaps Money, Dear Boy was at work when DC Comics allowed their trademarked name to be used in a film they had no input to. It really didn't help that the actual Catwoman character was off-limits because of the possibility she would appear in another Batman movie. | |
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The Blues Brothers: Want to know how the movie was filled to the brim with blues and soul royalty? The artists needed the money. We may think of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and James Brown as legends today, but they and their peers saw their careers decline in the 1970s as disco became the dominant urban music genre. Many of them had a resurgence in popularity in the '80s due in no small part to the film's success. This was actually an Invoked Trope, as John Belushi was a huge fan of the various musicians and knew that they were struggling financially at the time, so he made a big effort to get them into both the film and sound track in order to help them out. | |
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In the filming of Wonka, Hugh Grant absolutely loathed playing the Oompa-Loompa, whether it was the way he wasn't sure how the camera was capturing his movement, the feeling of the mocap suit, or just the general feeling of the character. He gave an interview in Vanity Fair with a sidenote about how he kind of hates making movies even at the best of times, but the money's at least good and he's got kids to support. | |
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He originally and consistently refused to star in Arthur (1981), but the producers kept upping his fee until he really couldn't turn it down. In the end, he won an Academy Award for the role. He returned for a cameo in the sequel, presumably for even more money. Despite the acclaim that he received, Gielgud stated that he didn't find any of the material even slightly funny or interesting. | |
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It is pretty telling to note that Pattinson and Stewart collectively drove a particularly hard bargain going into New Moon and negotiated a six-fold salary increase for themselves (in other words, these two people alone cost the filmmakers 40% of their budget). | |
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Love Island: Molly-Mae Hague, from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, went on the show because of this trope and assuming the show would have a good paycheck, and things turned out quite well for her, with her becoming an influencer in her post-Love Island career. Where she was from was a wealthy part of England anyway, but it wasn't the mega-rich Home Counties stereotype. Lucie Donlan, from Cornwall, also went on the show for the paycheck, but this was only known after the fact; as it were, she was a small-time model before the show, but her public profile was raised due to it and the fact she went in for the money probably contributed to this. |
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This is pretty much why Hulk Hogan signed on to TNA. He'd been wiped out by his divorce and needed the cash. This despite a reputation for demanding and getting exorbitant paydays during his career. | |
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1960s crooner Johnny Mathis confessed he did the famous theme song to Trans Lux's The Mighty Hercules cartoon series purely for the cash plus residuals. | |
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Because YouTube offers creators such instantaneous feedback in terms of what audiences do and don't want to watch, it's usually pretty easy to notice when a creator starts indulging this trope. More than a few YouTubers have abruptly turned their channels into gaming channels — usually centred around trendy games like Minecraft or Fortnite — simply because they've found it too hard to effectively monetize other forms of content. YouTube been intentionally lenient with big-name content creators violating community guidelines, as they bring the site the most money, while being extremely harsh towards smaller channels for much less serious reasons. For example; Logan Paul uploads a video of himself at a Japanese forest known for suicide. The video sparked outrage among the site's users and media outlets cover it. YouTube decides to remove his channels from Google Preferred (a premium advertising program), issue a strike and condemn his actions over a week after the video was posted, and Logan voluntarily deleted the video.note Bear in mind that he was not demonitized for the suicide forest video. A few weeks later, Logan posts a video of himself shooting some dead rodents with a taser. YouTube opts to suspend advertising on his videos for two weeks when anyone else would've had their channel terminated had they done the exact same thing. This trope can be a viable strategy for smaller channels lucky enough to be monetised in the first places; many channels that manage to capture the algorithm and audience's favour tend to ride it as hard as possible for a few months to around a year at most, raking in as much cash as they can, then either cut their losses when it gets less profitable, or try an attempt to Win Back the Crowd, to mixed success. |
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Chester Gould of Dick Tracy. He saw himself as a businessman competing, in addition to other cartoonists, with the other sections of the newspaper, such as the front page. He created many of his stories and characters from situations ripped from the headlines (Flattop, created in the mid-'40s, was named after a WWII aircraft carrier). Although he was in it for the money, he found this sense of competition compelled him to create memorable stories and characters. | |
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Arguably the entire point of the Spackman Initiative in The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. | |
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A meme of one of the villains from Tom and Jerry: The Movie saying "We've got to have money!" is used all over the internet to represent this trope, usually in a mocking manner. | |
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Dragon Ball, at the behest of Kazuhiko Torishima, was relaunched as Dragon Ball Z after the Piccolo Jr. arc, as the launch of a new show would give Toei Animation more promotional money. The original Dragon Ball anime was itself launched with a merchandising plan already in mind. | |
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Dusty Rhodes spent the last decade of his life working as a producer/agent for WWE, particularly in their developmental territory in Florida. There are many stories about him lamenting some of the bureaucracy he had to endure by saying, "Vince is lucky that I didn't save my money." | |
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Back in 1990 while with WCW Brian Pillman was given an ultimatum by new booker Ole Anderson: take a pay cut, or get squashed in the opening match every night until his contract expired. Pillman responded by saying he'd be thrilled to be the highest paid curtain-jerker in wrestling. As it turned out people higher up on the Turner food chain were Pillman fans, so he got a push instead. | |
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Sting is often bewildered at "Every Breath You Take" interpretation as a romantic song, often played at people's weddings. But the £500,000 a year, he earns from it in royalties as the most played song on UK and US radio probably helps. This is also likely the reason why Sting, a devoted environmentalist, agreed to shill for Jaguar and Compaq Computers during the promotion of his "Brand New Day" album. The Jaguar deal alone brought in more than 3 million extra sales of the album and covered the costs of promoting the album (as the song "Desert Rose" was played in the commercial). Likewise, Sting and his production team got more than $7 million from Compaq, who sponsored the "Brand New Day Tour". Sting made out like a total bandit at the end of this.note And of course there's nothing preventing him from devoting that money to earth-saving projects. |
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He's said similar things about a planned remake of Big Trouble in Little China, being quoted as saying, "I’m ambivalent about a remake... On the other hand, it depends on how much they pay me." | |
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Shinsuke Nakamura's WWE run has been derided for how poorly he was used after being called up to the main roster in 2017 and many fans expected him to leave the promotion when his contract came up in 2021; possibly to return to Japan or join the then-fledgling AEW. Instead he signed an extension, despite never being pushed to a consistent main-event level like he was in his native Japan. Nakamura has said that he used to wrestle for "art", now he's wresting for "money". So whatever WWE is paying him to be a midcard gatekeeper must be better than the offers he was getting from Japan or any other promotion. | |
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He took on the title role in Cromwell, a casting choice that raised many eyebrows, as he was a hedonistic proudly patriotic Irishman playing a puritan who once committed genocide in Ireland. The salary was simply too good to pass up. | |
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Anthrax rhythm guitarist Scott Ian responded to charges that the band was "selling out" with new singer John Bush and the more mainstream-sounding Sound of White Noise album by noting in an interview that "The bottom line is, everyone in this business is in it to make money. Myself included." | |
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The spoof adaptation Casino Royale (1967). Featuring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Peter O'Toole, Orson Welles, Deborah Kerr, John Huston... and nothing resembling coherence at any point. Part of the incoherence may be because Sellers wasn't in it for the moneynote When he signed on to the movie, it was pitched to him (and genuinely intended) as a straight and serious adaptation of the novel, with Sellers as the sole Bond of the film, and this to him was the draw — a chance to try out his drama chops and leave comedy for a film. As writing went on and the producers felt they couldn't compete with the series, they turned it into a parody, leaving Sellers feeling he was the victim of a Bait-and-Switch. He retaliated by hiring his own writer to try and rewrite his scenes to something approximating the original vision, or outright ignoring the script altogether and making up his own dialogue. but proved extremely difficult to work with and was subsequently fired, leaving the producers with half a film which they roped Niven into completing. | |
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Ian MacDonald stated that this was his ultimate goal behind doing Bruno the Bandit, and that his utter failure to monetize the comic after eleven years was the main reason he gave up. | |
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When he was first offered the role of John Steed on The Avengers (1960s), Patrick Macnee turned it down to pursue a career as a television producer. The producers kept coming back to him, so to deter them, he asked for (at the time) an exorbitant amount of money, more than an actor had ever been paid for British TV up to that time. To his great surprise, the producers accepted his asking price, and the rest is history. | |
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His and Debra Hill's work on the script for Halloween II (1981) was purely mercenary, as they felt that the first film was a standalone story. It's no surprise that he's described it as an inferior script, saying that the only thing that got him through writing it was a six-pack of Budweiser every morning. | |
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Ric Flair's stint in TNA was solely for the money. Poor money management and a string of divorces left him near broke, despite a 40-year in-ring career. | |
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By most accounts, Gielgud thought little of film acting generally and mainly took roles for money, regardless of their quality. Which explains his participation in Quest for Camelot. | |
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The "Curly Joe" era of the The Three Stooges was mostly this. However, it's easy to justify because the Stooges got royally screwed over on the shorts that made them famous. | |
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Someone once asked Rod Stewart if he had heard what Tom Waits thought about his cover of "Downtown Train." Rod replied that Tom had let him know that he'd bought his family a new swimming pool, and Rod had paid for it! | |
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An in-universe example in the Hey Arnold! episode "Pre-Teen Scream" was when pop "singer" Ronnie Matthews admits to Phoebe Heyerdahl that he was only a handsome manufactured Idol Singer who merely entered the music industry for money and glamour rather than genuine talent. | |
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson walked away from his highly successful professional wrestling career at age 32 after having a small measure of success in The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King. His film career worked out, as he eventually climbed to Hollywood's highest-paid actor in 2017 after a string of blockbuster hits. He has stated in interviews that he liked wrestling more, but making films paid better, didn't require him to travel as much and didn't take as much of a toll on his body. | |
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Originally, he had no intention of acting again after The Crying Game. So when he was offered a role in Stargate, he insisted on a $1 million salary, figuring there'd be no way they'd be willing to pay him that much. But his offer was accepted, and he decided that it'd be nice to have some financial security, so he took the role. | |
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The Superman franchise has been the focus of a number of publicized instances involving the stars: Marlon Brando was ultimately paid $14 million for 10 minutes as Jor-El. Gene Hackman, as Lex Luthor, also apparently swung a nice deal. Christopher Reeve asked Hackman why he chose to be in Superman. Hackman replied: "you mean besides the six million dollars?" Hackman also admitted in interviews that his appearance in The Quest for Peace was entirely financially motivated. Admittedly, it couldn't be much else. |
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On the Transformers film, Hugo Weaving has casually admitted to phoning in his performance as Megatron. He seems guilty about it. | |
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Oldman reportedly only took the role of Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy because it would pay well, having no particular fondness for the material or for punk music. That's not to say he didn't give it his all — he lost frightening amounts of weight to match Vicious' heroin-addict figure and reportedly stayed in character some nights after shooting while going clubbing with the cinematographer. That, and he gave the best and most faithful performance of anyone in the film. | |
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The two lead actors on My Family, Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker, disliked the show's writing, with Lindsay saying "There's some real dross (in the scripts) and we're aware of it". This trope is probably why they stuck with it. | |
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Chris Stapleton said as much about "Never Wanted Nothing More", which he co-wrote. "Ronnie (Bowman, the song's co-writer) came to me and said 'Why don't we write a hit?' and we did it. It bought me a house, thanks Kenny Chesney" | |
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Charmed: Holly Marie Combs was rumored to want to leave the show after Shannen Doherty's departure in Season 4. But she was forced to stay by contract and had bills to pay. Rose McGowan took the role of Paige because she only expected to be "in and out" (her initial contract was for two seasons). She did not expect to stay on for five years. She had no problem pointing out that she just liked having a steady paycheck. Nonetheless, she did appear to have some affection for the show, if her interviews years later are anything to go by. |
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The song "American Pie" from American Pie is often debated by music critics for its metaphorical lyrics and veiled references. What exactly does it mean? Don McLean has been asked several times, and his answer is always the same. 'It means I never have to work again.' | |
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When Hattie McDaniel, who won an Academy Award for playing a house slave in Gone with the Wind, was asked why she kept taking roles that cast her as a stereotypical black servant in films and radio shows, she responded, "Why should I complain about making $700[[note]]$12,000 by today's standards a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one." | |
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John Mahoney has said this of his role on Frasier. The money from that show meant that he could afford to appear in, and sometimes finance, the artistic plays that were his true passion. | |
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For Get Carter, Britt Ekland was afraid of becoming typecast, having already played two gangster's molls before this. She was also reluctant to take the part as she did not want to take her clothes off; however, she had financial problems at the time as a result of bad investment decisions by her accountant. She was later happy that she had been involved with the project. | |
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He once admitted that he did The Cannonball Run for the money and as a favor to his friend Hal Needham. | |
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Mike Hammer: Mickey Spillane stated that his primary motivation for writing Mike Hammer novels was the lucra and that he only wrote a new one when he needed more. | |
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Gordon Lightfoot was enraged when his label wanted to rename his poorly-selling album "Sit Down Young Stranger" to "If You Could Read My Mind" after the single of the same name started charting, going so far as to fly to LA to confront the label execs directly. He was told that renaming the album was "the difference between x and 7x". Needless to say, he got his 7x. | |
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Berry received a $500,000 bonus on top of her base salary for Swordfish in exchange for agreeing to bare her breasts on-camera. (Giving new meaning to Fanservice Extra) | |
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In 1996, writer Mark Waid and artist Ron Garney were unceremoniously removed from a critically acclaimed run on Captain America and replaced by Rob Liefeld and Jeph Loeb. One year later, Waid & Garney were reinstated. At that year's Comic-Con, when asked why he would come back after what happened, Waid simply rubbed his fingers together | |
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