These Are The Highest-Paid Film and Television Roles Of All Time

Gal Gadot, $31 Million

Gadot earned $20 million for her role in Netflix's Red Notice. She also earned an extra $17 million from streaming, and this is all before Wonder Woman 1984 even came out.

Meryl Streep, $24 Million

Streep appeared in Steven Soderbergh's film, Let Them All Talk on HBO Max. She earned a $5 million cut from the production. She rest of that $24 million came from The Prom and Little Women.

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  • Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks”.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • The Terminator script was sold for a dollar.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.