Angela Bassett has inked a new deal paying her $450,000 an episode for FOX drama 9-1-1.

[Nature's Fury]

Glad one of our legends is winning

 

[ORDER_66]

 

[Aceofspades404]

Queen

 

[Coco Loco]

I love it! Someone made a thread a couple of months back asking why she was essentially "lowering herself" by doing tv/this show. She's an EP, director and biggest star of the show. Auntie wasn't just the talent she secured her bag and now she's getting what she deserves.


9-1-1 and the spin off are good shows. She'll be eating well for years. Then if this goes into syndication!

 

[ColdSlither]

She's just acting. In real life she's been with Courtney B. Vance for 24 years. Get your money queen.

 

[EBK String]

Never heard of the show.

 

[General Mills]

Heyyyy Auntie

 

[WesCrook]

I love it! Someone made a thread a couple of months back asking why she was essentially "lowering herself" by doing tv/this show. She's an EP, director and biggest star of the show. Auntie wasn't just the talent she secured her bag and now she's getting what she deserves.


9-1-1 and the spin off are good shows. She'll be eating well for years. Then if this goes into syndication!

Also a lot of veterans are going the TV route. They feel how we feel about the quality of movies these days.

 

[Carlton Banks]

 

[Coco Loco]

Also a lot of veterans are going the TV route. They feel how we feel about the quality of movies these days.

Yup and a lot of them are EP's, writers and directors. Look at the credits for these shows, it's in plain sight. TV is very lucrative if they get behind the right shows/networks. Tasha Smith is someone who you rarely see in front of the camera but she wears many hats behind the scenes. As long as they're getting paid, I'm all for it

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Should be the highest paid woman on tv tbh

That distinction belongs to Ellen Pompeo and Mariska Hargitay.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Congratulations, Queen

LMAO at Courtney face

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Also a lot of veterans are going the TV route. They feel how we feel about the quality of movies these days.

Ehhhh I would go the streaming service route before regular television mainly because there are more spot to go around. 911 is a mega hit for Fox or it would have been cancelled long ago in place of reality television because of the costs.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

$450k is nice. If she does 10 episodes this year that's $2.5 million You gotta remember half that going to taxes

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Getting paid 450K an episode to act, married to a successful black man for decades and some of you go straight to wenching comments