08-04-2014, 08:33 PM
(08-03-2014, 08:57 PM)pilot fish Wrote: I don't know what I think of all this; the show makes enormous profit and the actors deserve financial credit, definitely more than they get at present. I wonder how much writers,etc, get. I doubt they'll be able to spend the fortunes they've amassed already. Maybe it's a status thang; Friends actors got $1M per episode, and Charlie Sheen $2M(and we all know what he did with it!). Maybe if an actor spends so long of their career on one project, they may find it hard to play anyone else. So these new salaries are high earnings that may have to last a life time.
Actors get character fatigue. If they have played the same character for a long time they get bored with it and want other challenges. Sometimes money can alleviate it just like it can in any other job. Sometimes writers/producers throw them acting challenges. That's where cousin Sabrina on Bewitched and saucy sister Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie came from.