But who has been paid the very most to appear in one movie?
Emphasis on one movie, not a franchise.
Essentially, he wasn’t just set up to be paid a flat sum of cash upfront.
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Comic-book movie actors have chased this level of duality ever since.
Well, who in the world is it?
The Clown Prince of Crime is ready for his close-up, after getting a little creative.
However, it wasn’t just his track record and charisma that earned Jack Nicholsonthe top-billing inBatman.
Something else had to be afoot.
What Led Jack Nicholson To Become the Highest-Paid Actor for One Movie?
That would be the enormous, gargantuan sum of cash that he was promised for his work.
you might only imagine what this put in Nicholson’s wallet.
Can someone sign this kind of deal for me, too?
Drumming up a deal like this was completely unprecedented at the time!
You never know that could also be motivation stemming from being promised an enormous sum of money.
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