54. Ryan Reynolds
Project: Deadpool
Proposed Salary: $2 million*
Outcome: Agreed, with backend share of the profits Ryan Reynolds was the ideal choice for the role of Deadpool, the world’s most sarcastic anti-hero. The Deadpool movie only cost $58 million to make, which is a fraction of the expense of many other M.C.U. films. Reynolds was paid a pittance of $2 million up front to play the superhero. However, in the end, it didn’t matter because the film was a huge success. Thanks to a back-end transaction of the profits, it grossed $780 million, making Reynold’s payment worth 10 times what it was at the start. Reynolds, a seasoned Hollywood professional, must have known from the start that Deadpool would be a hit.
54. Ryan Reynolds
55. Sienna Miller
Project: 21 Bridges
Proposed Salary: Unknown, but Chadwick Boseman offered to take a pay cut
Outcome: Agreed, Miller was paid equally to Boseman In the 2019 thriller 21 Bridges, Sienna Miller co-starred with Chadwick Boseman. Miller said after Boseman’s death that she would not have received the amount she did if it hadn’t been for Boseman’s advocacy on her behalf. Boseman, who died at the age of 43 following a hidden struggle with cancer, took a salary cut to ensure that he and Miller were paid equally. The act, according to Miller, was a “testament to who [Boseman] was.” Boseman’s generosity, according to Miller, was the “most incredible thing” she’d ever seen in Hollywood. There would have been a huge income disparity between them if he hadn’t given her a portion of his paycheck.
55. Sienna Miller
