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Ever since Sport of Thrones ended, HBO subscribers have moved onto their subsequent obsession: Westworld. The sci-fi collection’ fourth season premieres on June 26, and because the Westworld forged wage proves, this season shall be something however small.
Westworld turned a direct success when it premiered on HBO in 2016. The collection, which stars Evan Rachel Wooden, James Marsden and Thandie Newton, takes place in a dystopian future the place individuals hunt and kill human-like robots in a Wild Wild West-themed amusement park for enjoyable—that’s, till the robots activate the people and begin mass-murdering them. The present, govt produced by Star Wars‘ J.J. Abrams, has been nominated for quite a few Emmys, together with Excellent Drama Sequence and Excellent Lead and Supporting Actress in a Drama Sequence. Newton received the award for Excellent Supporting Actress for her function as Maeve, a robotic who outsmarts her engineers, in 2018.
After a two-year break, Westworld will return with season 4 on June 26, 2022. As anticipated, the collection left off with some cliffhangers within the season 3 finale that followers hope shall be answered within the upcoming season. However till then, let’s learn the way a lot Westworld‘s major gamers make to star in a single HBO’s most talked-about collection.
Ed Harris
Picture: HBO.
Wage: $250,000 per episode
Harris stars because the Man in Black, a veteran Westworld visitor on a mission to uncover the park’s innermost secrets and techniques. As a longtime actor (Harris is Oscar-nominated and starred in Apollo 13), Harris and Anthony Hopkins had the very best salaries of the Westworld forged at $175,000 per episode earlier than season 3 negotiations, THR reported in 2016. Nevertheless, THR reported in 2018 that Westworld‘s 4 major forged members—Harris, Evan Rachel Wooden, Jeffrey Wright and Thandie Newton—reached a deal to be paid the identical quantity for season 3: $250,000 per episode.
Evan Rachel Wooden
Picture: HBO.
Wage: $250,000 per episode
As one of many 4 major forged members, Wooden makes $250,000 per episode for Westworld season 4. In a 2018 interview with The Wrap, Wooden recalled the emotional second she discovered that she can be paid the identical as her male costars for Westworld season 3. “I feel I’m simply now to the purpose the place I’m getting paid the identical as my male co-stars,” she mentioned. “I used to be simply instructed that, you already know, ‘Hey you’re, you’re getting equal pay.’ And I used to be like [gasp]. And I virtually bought emotional. I used to be like, ‘I’ve by no means been paid the identical as my male counterparts … By no means, by no means.’” THR reported that, earlier than the Westworld season 3 negotiations, the primary forged was paid between $100,000 and $150,000 per episode. It’s unclear what Wooden made for the primary two seasons of the collection, however it’s assumed that her wage was across the $100K mark given Harris and Hopkins’ $175,000 paychecks. For a lot of followers, Wooden is the face of Westworld as Dolores, the oldest host/robotic of the park who involves study that her whole life is an elaborate lie.
Jeffrey Wright
Picture: HBO.
Wage: $250,000 per episode
Wright is one other major forged member on Westworld, which implies that he’s additionally part of the $250,000 per episode bracket for season 3, and certain, season 4. It’s unclear how a lot he made for the collection’ first two seasons, however provided that his different forged members made between $100,000 and $150,000 per episode (with the exceptions of Hopkins and Harris), it’s assumed that Wright was paid round $100,000 per episode earlier than he and his costars negotiated to $250K per episode in time for the third season. Wright performs Bernard, the top of Westworld’s Programming Division, who learns that he’s additionally a robotic.
Thandie Newton
Picture: HBO.
Wage: $250,000 per episode
Newton is Westworld‘s solely Emmy-winning forged member for her function as Maeve, a number whose previous reminiscences lead her to turn out to be the park’s most self-aware (and harmful) robotic. She’s additionally one of many 4 major actors included within the $250,000 per episode bracket for season 4. Like Wooden and Wright, the actress’ wage for season 1 and a pair of of the HBO collection was doubtless across the $100,000 per episode mark. In a 2018 interview with Self-importance Truthful, Newton opened up about reaching pay parity along with her male costars. “They’re all occurring proper now, and yeah, we’re all equal throughout the board,” she mentioned on the time. “It’s actually thrilling. It’s unprecedented. It’s—goodness; it shatters a lot calcified ache, resentment, frustration. It simply shatters it.”
The actress even instructed Self-importance Truthful that deliberate to show down any tasks that paid her much less or did have pay parity. “I wouldn’t do something if it didn’t. Positively not,” she mentioned. “Fuck that. It actually units a precedent, and [HBO is] main the way in which, which is wonderful.”
Anthony Hopkins
Picture: HBO.
Wage: $175,000 per episode
Now, earlier than followers turn out to be upset at how Anthony Hopkins may make lower than the opposite Westworld actors, allow us to remind you that his character—Robert Ford, the cofounder of Westworld—died in season 2. His wage was $175,000 per episode, the identical as Harris. Earlier than the season 3 negotiations, Hopkins and Harris had been the highest-paid forged members on Westworld.
James Marsden
Picture: HBO.
Wage: ~$100,000 per episode
THR reported in 2018 that Marsden and Tessa Thompson had been part of Westworld’s second-tier forged, which implies that they weren’t part of the renegotiations for season 3. On the time, Marsden’s character’s destiny on the present was unknown. As followers know, his character Teddy, a number who has a relationship with Dolores, died on the finish of season 2. (Or a minimum of his character in Marsden’s type died.) It’s unclear how a lot the actor made for the collection’ first two seasons, however it’s most certainly across the $100,000 per episode mark (or much less) given his second-tier standing within the forged.
Tessa Thompson
Picture: HBO.
Wage: >$250,000 per episode
Thompson’s character, Charlotte Hale, additionally died in season 2, which implies that she additionally wasn’t part of the renegotiations for season 3. THR additionally reported that Thompson was a part of the second-tier forged, together with Marsden, so her wage for the primary two seasons was doubtless lower than the primary 4 forged members. It’s unclear how a lot she made on season 1 and a pair of, however we estimate that it was across the $100,000 mark (and even much less) attributable to what her greater tier costars make. As for Thompson’s standing in season 3, the upcoming trailer reveals the actress, although it’s clear that it’s not the identical Charlotte we noticed in season 2. (As followers bear in mind, Dolores killed Charlotte and took over her id.) We estimate that her new wage is much less or across the $250,000 per episode mark.
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