Taraji P. Henson got a best actress Oscar nomination until the 2008 The curious case with the Benjamin buttonBut years later, she was still fired by the $ 150,000 that she accepted to be in the film – after producers rejected $ 500,000 that she brought to the table.
As for the film’s leads Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett“You don’t hear much of $ 20 million anymore, but at this time it happened,” Henson said at Ladies first with Laura Brown Podcast 2021. “And rightly – I’m not saying they shouldn’t have paid Cate and Brad what they deserved.”
But she continued, “I bring a certain amount with me too and I felt that what I asked at that time in my career was fair, was fair to ticket sales that I would contribute to this big movie. Would not.” Henson was “extinguished” when they offered $ 100,000, she remembered. “When everything was said and done, I got $ 150,000, but I had to swallow my pride, baby.”
To break it down, “I know people go, $ 150,000, that’s a lot of money!” “Endered Henson.” I never want people to think I’m grateful because it’s not me. “But, she calculated,” Uncle Sam will take 50 percent of it, so now you are left with, what? $ 75,000. Now before Uncle Sam takes the money, I have to pay my team before taxes, 30 percent. So when Uncle Sam takes his 75, I got another 30 coming from the 75, so I may have made $ 40,000? “
