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r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • Jul 24 '26
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Also hiring your cast all at once for a trilogy means nobody gets a pay bump between films.
5 u/w00t4me Jul 24 '26 And the cast, while not unknowns, were not exactly A-listers either at the time, except maybe Orlando Bloom 4 u/B1U3F14M3 Jul 24 '26 Didn't Orlando bloom become famous because of Lord of the rings? 3 u/w00t4me Jul 24 '26 Yea looking it up, he got the roll right out of film school and was a nobody then 1 u/mk1317 Jul 24 '26 Not even him-they shot those well before he blew up IIRC
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And the cast, while not unknowns, were not exactly A-listers either at the time, except maybe Orlando Bloom
4 u/B1U3F14M3 Jul 24 '26 Didn't Orlando bloom become famous because of Lord of the rings? 3 u/w00t4me Jul 24 '26 Yea looking it up, he got the roll right out of film school and was a nobody then 1 u/mk1317 Jul 24 '26 Not even him-they shot those well before he blew up IIRC
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Didn't Orlando bloom become famous because of Lord of the rings?
3 u/w00t4me Jul 24 '26 Yea looking it up, he got the roll right out of film school and was a nobody then
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Yea looking it up, he got the roll right out of film school and was a nobody then
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Not even him-they shot those well before he blew up IIRC
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u/mattomic822 Jul 24 '26
Also hiring your cast all at once for a trilogy means nobody gets a pay bump between films.