{"id":461102,"date":"2026-03-06T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:45:08","slug":"will-ferrell-gave-christina-applegate-pay-from-his-own-salary-because-anchorman-offer-was-so-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461102\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell gave Christina Applegate pay from his own salary because \u2018Anchorman\u2019 offer was so \u201coffensive\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Ferrell<\/a> and Adam McKay gave Christina Applegate money from their own salaries when they worked together on Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy, the actress has revealed.<\/p>\n

Applegate was speaking on the US talk show The View when she recalled being given an offer much less than her male co-stars for her role as Veronica Corningstone in the 2004 movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they came in with the initial offer, it was, you know, a little offensive,\u201d Applegate said. \u201cAnd I said I can\u2019t. I know my worth, and I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director McKay and Ferrell, who played Burgundy, had to intervene. \u201cThey wanted me bad enough, and they said, \u2018Well, we\u2019re gonna chip in.\u2019 Thank God they did because it was one of the best experiences of my entire life,\u201d Applegate said of the pair, who also co-wrote the movie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a lesson. I had never done improv before. Learning from that group of dudes\u2026 that is the masterclass that people pay for. Steve Carell, like, taught it. Adam McKay developed an entire new way of doing it with his group. To get in there and have that happen was absolutely magic and it\u2019s been invaluable to me and my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Applegate also looked back on how she felt \u201cso scared every day of my life\u201d while filming the movie, because McKay would encourage her, \u201c\u2018Now, just do what you feel like doing.\u2019\u201d The actress would respond, \u201c\u2018I want to say what you wrote. I don\u2019t want to make stuff up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy was set in 1975 and focused on Burgundy, a newsreader in San Diego, and his clash with new reporter Corningstone. Alongside Ferrell, Applegate and Carell, the movie also starred the likes of Paul Rudd<\/a>, David Koechner, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell, Kathryn Hahn and Fred Armisen.<\/p>\n

Most of the main cast, including Ferrell and Applegate, returned for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues in 2013. In the years since, there\u2019s been occasional discussion about a potential sequel \u2013\u00a0McKay suggesting sending Burgundy to war in 2018<\/a> \u2013 but Applegate has stepped away from the screen since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s currently promoting her memoir, You With The Sad Eyes, which was released on March 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell and Adam McKay gave Christina Applegate money from their own salaries when they worked together on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-461102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}