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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
According to chatgpt because I had a hard time googling it - $50M he got for the sequel . Meanwhile chatgpt recon6s Jim Carey got $15M
Chatgpt is in no way shape or form a reliable source of information. The Information provided may be out of date, out of context, or even wildly wrong and you have no way to verify this unless you do the research yourself.
All our current parodies of actual AI are able to do is be very convincing that what they say is true. They don’t know if it’s true, nor are they able to figure that out. They don’t care either. They are just chatbots with bells and whistles.
Do not use them as sources of information, if anything have them give you an answer that you can then use as a starting point to verify their truthfulness.
According to my hairdresser, chatgpt is not a reliable source of information.
As much as I am a ChatGPT fan, you cannot trust it when it comes down to factual data unless you're using a custom model with a specific knowledgebase.
I think a lot of basic obscure facts like this are likely to be inaccurate from ChatGPT if its difficult to find it from a basic search engine.
Who knows what random source it is viewing as the "truth" and spitting back out to people.
This is so hard to read, I'm assuming you're 6 years-old. Or an AI, the end result is the same...
Oh, interesting. Thank you for the info! I was going with a general knowledge that the more well known actors get paid more because of their popularity. Seema this one was a different case.
If nobody knows about him he's not that good
Dumb logic. That's like saying the Kardashians are extremely talented people.
They are extremely talented at publicity and marketing.
Which is all a movie studio really cares about because that sells tickets.
Popularity ≠ Ability
Source: Adam Sandler
Nobody knew about Patrick Stewart before TNG, and he was quite accomplished.
An actor's popularity is dependent on if they have a major role in popular movies, a large social media presence, or things like that. Many people don't exactly care about quality in movies, or the actors ability to act.
There are some great actors we probably never heard of, because they are cast in minor roles, or in movies barely anyone knows about.
I don’t know about you either.