Taraji P. Henson Reveals She Was Paid $150,000 for Oscar-Nominated Role & Took Home Only $30,000

[CouldntBeMeTho]

I'm tired of these women complaining about pay they accepted and sign a contract for with a lawyer present.

It is hella disingenuous

 

[2 one 3]

This is dumb as fukk.

If you don’t understand why Jeff Bezos barely pays taxes but an actress does, you probably shouldn’t comment on it.

If you want to keep your tax money, build a corporation, buy real estate, have your money in stocks or other investments, etc. If you want to get paid and give Uncle Sam a large stake of your money, be an employee. The game is rigged, sure, but it’s not rigged secretly. The government makes it known 100% what they want you to do in order to not have to give the IRS all of your money.

shut up lil nikka


The fact that their are billionaires in the world is disgusting enough

 

[Jblaze204]

She continued, “OK, so let’s break it down like this: You have twelve months in a year to make your money right. If you do a film for five months that takes you off the market for anything else or any other kind of coin until you’re done with that show,” she further explained.

if she couldn't work in other projects for 5 months, that's pretty foul. i only remember her being in a few scenes in Benjamin Button. i understand brad pitt and the old australian lady as leads not being able to work on other projects

 

[mobbinfms]

When you start making that kind of money Uncle Sam takes 50 percent, so let’s do the math,”

Marginal tax rate on $150,000 in 07-08 was 28%. Not to mention that she would have paid significantly less tax on the first $75,000 in income.

 

[SheWantTheD]

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

EMPIRE: Terence Howard and Taraji P. Henson started out earning between $110,000 and $120,000 per episode, but were elevated to the $225,000-$250,000 range in 2016.

Exactly, so she probably took this role as an accolade despite the terrible payment

 

[CHICAGO]

Are you going to throw the bag at an actress for a 20 minute role whose biggest hit is a supporting role in a movie that only made $28 million?

I’m not sure I’d consider Hustle and Flow a breakout role if it took her another 5-6 years to find mainstream success after the fact.

YOU KEEP TRYING TO
DISMISS THE ROLE LIKE
SHE DIDNT GET NOMINATED
FOR AN OSCAR.



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[I love Latina women]

 

[Magic Mulatto]

I ain’t never finna see the kinda money be talked about ITT in my life…

 

[Geek Nasty]

You can blame the government for that as they create the loopholes that allow the rich and wealthy to dodge taxes. It’s why it’s laughable that people think that the rich will ever pay their fair share.

If people get back to that pro labor, keep-a-foot-on-a-rich-man's-neck attitude they used to have they would. We used to have a 90% tax rate to discourage corporations from overpaying CEOs.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

control. distribution. own content. prosper.

 

[get these nets]

Just watched the OP video. She directly addressed (and educated) people who misconstrued an old comment where she complained about making 150K for the role in the Benjamin Button film.
The blog-osphere and twitter-verse only reads headlines and watch short video clips. She addressed them calling her "greedy". They tried to Latrell Sprewell her ."I got mouths to feed"

The Internet is something else.

 

[UpAndComing]

If people get back to that pro labor, keep-a-foot-on-a-rich-man's-neck attitude they used to have they would. We used to have a 90% tax rate to discourage corporations from overpaying CEOs.

And Corporations STILL dodged paying those taxes when it was 90%


Y'all been hoodwinked by the media and government to this raising taxes effects the rich

Been saying it, raising taxes is the most useless and inefficient way to extract profits away from Billion dollar corporations

 

[Geek Nasty]

And Corporations STILL dodged paying those taxes when it was 90%


Y'all been hoodwinked by the media and government to this raising taxes effects the rich

Been saying it, raising taxes is the most useless and inefficient way to extract profits away from Billion dollar corporations

What am I missing? AFAIK corporations never bothered paying salaries in those ranges.

 

[UpAndComing]

What am I missing? AFAIK corporations never bothered paying salaries in those ranges.

Most billionaire CEOs don't get paid salaries. They know it's not tax friendly. Most of them get paid $1 a year. And no that's not a typo

They get most of their money through stock options, real estate, and overseas accounts. Because they have the money and resources to do so. Government making taxes higher doesn't effect them

 

[chkmeout]

I don’t think brad Pitt has ever gotten 20 million for a film. Dudes pull isn’t that big. She also only had about 20 minutes of screen time in Benjamin Button and hadn’t really had a breakout role by the time it had filmed.

Goofy