Why should he take a pay cut when he earned that money? Would you be taking a pay cut if your BILLION dollar company is being too cheap to pay your coworkers?
am i rich??? did i already make 20-30-35-4-70-80 million dollars already off 4 movies?? then fukk it
what's another 10 less.
that's like me making 15 an hour.. and in order to work with the BEST crew, i'd have to make 13 an hour... or i could fukk up the whole project, working with the C-list crew, who wasn't on the job the previous 4 jobs...
yea i'm gonna go ahead and take a pay cut.. MANY actors and directors have taken a pay cut or put up their own money to help get a project done that they loved. cause they wanted the best in it, instead of just getting a check
how could he lose... he says he's giving up 10 mil to 10 actors... he comes off looking GREAT to the public, who gets a better movie with the same people... he looks GREAT to the actors and people in hollywood that he sacrificed money for quality... he looks GREAT to the studio, who just got bailed out of completely fukking this up with having 3 new major characters, mid trilogy... it'd be all wins... except 10 mil out of how much?? and he could even trade that in for points... lots of actors take less up front and want percentage
trust me.. he could work this out.... it's not like he's already NOT doing something... what if they call his bluff?? well now there's still no continuity for the next films... we still gotta change actors.. and now iron man 4 is fukked too cause he'll be replaced... which the studio will spin to say "RDJ took too much money so we couldn't afford to pay anyone.... blame him"