{"id":537435,"date":"2026-04-18T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:13:08","slug":"miles-teller-325-million-long-drink-company-sale-not-retiring-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537435\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Teller $325 Million Long Drink Company Sale, Not Retiring Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taraji_p_henson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taraji P. Henson<\/a> earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for 2008\u2019s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but years later she was still fired up by the $150,000 she accepted to be in the movie\u2014after producers rejected the $500,000 quote she brought to the table.<\/p>\n<p>As for the film\u2019s leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brad_pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Pitt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cate_blanchett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cate Blanchett<\/a>, \u201cYou don\u2019t hear a lot of $20 million quotes anymore, but at this time that was happening,\u201d Henson said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/taraji-p-henson-on-mental-health\/id1537656482?i=1000510298743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ladies First With Laura Brown podcast<\/a> in 2021. \u201cAnd rightfully so\u2014I\u2019m not saying they shouldn\u2019t have paid Cate and Brad what they deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, she continued, \u201cI\u2019m bringing a certain amount to the seat too and I felt like what I was asking at that time in my career was fair, was fair to the ticket sales that I would contribute to this big film. Wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d Henson was \u201cgutted\u201d when they offered $100,000, she recalled. \u201cWhen it was all said and done I got $150,000, but I had to swallow my pride, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking it down, \u201cI know people go, \u2018$150,000, that\u2019s a lot of money!\u2019\u201d Henson acknowledged. \u201cI don\u2019t ever want people to think that I\u2019m ungrateful because that is not me.\u201d But, she calculated, \u201cUncle Sam is going to take 50 percent of that, so now you\u2019re left with, what? $75,000. Now before Uncle Sam takes the money, I have to pay my team before taxes, 30 percent. So once Uncle Sam takes his 75, then I got another 30 that\u2019s coming off of that 75, so I may have made $40,000?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taraji P. Henson earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for 2008\u2019s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537435","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=537435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}