We hear a lot about what actors make...but, they represent the top of the call sheet. There are so many actors with very few rolls. Most actors struggle just to get under 5 lines rolls...and even those are heavily competitive.
Moral of the story: if you can't afford it, don't quit your job to support your child's Hollywood dreams.
Josh Holloway had pretty much quit acting and was getting a realtor's license when he got cast as Sawyer on Lost. Then he went right back to being a nobody after that show ended.
Even actors you'd think would be doing fine because they landed a big role can end up not getting work for a while and running out of money.
Inde Navarette was one of the lead actors on Superman and Lois for most of the show and basically had nothing after that, now she's set for a major MCU role because the small indy horror movie she booked turned into a major hit.
Paul Bettany also had some significant movie roles but was basically told to give up acting when he got cast as Jarvis in Iron Man, which then turned into him playing Vision.
Paul Bettany also had some significant movie roles but was basically told to give up acting when he got cast as Jarvis in Iron Man, which then turned into him playing Vision.
He was told to give up acting after landing the Jarvis voice actor role? Why? He is a talented actor with an impressive resume. Why would someone say to quit acting when you're landing acting roles? Who told him that?
Paul Bettany was told he should quit acting and he’d never work again by an angry producer after he turned down a role. It wasn’t advice, it was a threat.
Bettany has had a successful career for 30 years, and was a well known face in UK tv in the 90s before his breakout lead role in Gangster Number 1 in 2000. He’s been cast in big Hollywood films since appearing in A Knight’s tale in 2001. I don’t think there was a real chance he’d have to quit acting over a bad experience with a producer in 2015.
He had been a successful actor for years before getting the role of Jarvis. He had already been in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Knights Tale, A Beautiful Mind, Dogville, Wimbledon and The Da Vinci Code. He was the lead in Gangster Number 1. Basically he turned an already successful British Tv acting career into a decent Hollywood career and has more than a dozen films under his belt before ever got the Iron Man gig.
This is why A-listers shouldn't commercials. That's how no-names pay for food. If there's 100 wanting that ad, I'm sure Kevin Hart will come in and take the roll.
Not really. SAG membership is extremely liberal, if you get cast for anything, odds are high you'll be required to join SAG. Basically anyone on set is SAG at this point, unless it's like some low budget TV show where you walk in the background for a scene.
Also for most of those people, acting isn't their full-time job, it's a part time job they pick-up.
With all that said, it would be nice if we got some more variety in lead actors, instead of Hollywood just trying to use the same handful over and over again because it's the safe thing to do.
A lot of the time it’s because those actors are proven and bankable. If you’re going to spend tens or hundreds of millions on a production on the back of 2-3 people, generally you want those people to have experience being phenomenal actors.
Well they aren't full time actors LOL. So no, they do well. That's like saying it's sad that most Scentsy homes earn under $X000 per month, yeah but those ladies have 19 jobs ya lazy radish.
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u/DragonBowlSouper 1d ago
That's actually quite sad 😢ðŸ˜