Actors get paid based on their popularity, or said differently, you get paid shit if you are not known by millions. You can be the worst actor and get paid millions, while the best actor of the century gets paid minimum wage because noone knows about him.
It’s a little more complicated than that. Carrey was negotiating for Dumb and Dumber when Ace Ventura hit the box office. By the time the negotiations ended, there wasn’t much money left for other actors. But that one movie was really all that he was known for at the time. So it was still a huge risk for a potential flash in the pan.
Daniels wanted to expand his career into comedy, but the producers didn’t want him since he wasn’t known for comedy. He had done a lot of movies by that point though and was well known, just not for comedy. So they threw him a lowball number to get rid of him. He wasn’t suppose to take it.
It was all just really wild timing on Carrey’s part and priorities not focused on money on Daniels’ part.
And I hope Daniels made bank off the sequel
Dumb and Dumber is my favorite comedy of all time, but I’ve avoided that sequel like the plague. It looks like it has the budget of an SNL sketch
Well, that settles it then - Jeff Daniels was the dumber one! 😂
And then they complain they don’t have money to pay their writers and crew members. SMH
Bob Iger makes 27 million dollars a year, not counting the passive money he makes by investing his excess salary.
You can literally pay all the writers and crew members what they’re asking, on every movie made in a year, with just the studio heads salaries … let alone the rest of the overpaid executives, board members, and investors.
Bro! I need my third yacht. Don’t be selfish.
That yacht will trickle down to the writers, actors, and crew members.
He was paid in exposure, pride, and accomplishment.
And it worked out for him.
Yep. Taking the piss aside, it was a smart move to co-star with someone so famous.
