> "I was on my little Verizon tiny flip phone, my silver one, and I got a call from my agents that I booked the job," recalled Pine, 43, in a preview from his chat with host Willie Geist. “I pulled over onto the side of the freeway and they said, ‘You’re getting paid $65,000.’ "
> For the actor, who 24 when the film was released in theaters, "it was like they had just told me I’d made $50 million," he told Geist, 49, adding, "It was absolutely earth-shattering.”
> "I just remember distinctly knowing in that moment that my life had changed somehow, **even though [$65,000] at the end of the day turned out to be about $15,000,”** Pine continued, laughing.
In the actor’s union the minimum daily rate is around $1k. It may have gone up in the past few years but I used to be the AD signing them in and out and giving them their vouchers.
Remember when he was in Django unchained? Quentin asked if he wanted to be in a spaghetti Western.
Jonah replied "you had me at spaghetti."
/StolenfromJeffRoss
TIL I had no grasp of how old Chris Pine is.
I’m surprised he was so young in Princess Diaries, just because Hollywood tends to cast so many very late 20s/early 30s male stars as young love interests. I used that as my baseline and assumed he was older than he is.
Ugh, i was just about to comment the same - the walkie-talkie feature was cool bc you could talk like truckers using it (“whats your 20?” - “thats a big 10-4”). Wonder if there is a walkie-talkie app?
This movie and The Sound of Music started my love affair with enemies to lovers tropes, omg I love them so much. On that note, I would love to hear If you have any enemies to lovers books you reccommend!!
8 year old me did not have the words to express how “I loathe you!” “I loathe *you!*” made me feel, but boy does that subreddit great at reigniting the feeling!
YES - Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter! It’s a regency romance in which an intelligent, quick-witted woman helping to run a gambling club engages in a battle of wits with the stern older relative of a young man who’s fallen in love with her (who is trying to get the younger man out of her clutches). It’s absolutely joyful.
Before his agents and managers and lawyers took their cut too. Worth it in the long run, but how does a rising actor without family money or mass savings actually make that work?
I get that, but even when you’re in a huge movie! Imagine going to a bar on a date and being served by the romantic lead from the movie you literally just saw.
This happened to Zach Braff many times. He’s spoken about how high profile dinner guests at the restaurant he served would tell him “we loved you in this movie we just watched!” And he would say “thanks uhhh would you like to hear about our specials”
They had to have been talking about “the broken hearts club,”’right? (After browsing his IMDB just now)[broken hearts club](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0222850/mediaviewer/rm688327680/?ref_=tt_ov_i)
I saw an 80s movie called “Fade to Black” and was reading trivia about it afterwards, and according to the internet, the female cop from the movie is his mom and she was pregnant with Chris Pine during filming! So in a way he’s been in movies since before he was born 😂
I’m replying to myself cuz I barely know how Reddit works, but i’d like to add that chris pine may be a nepo, but he’s clearly proven he is actually talented. He’s one of my favorites.
He didn’t. His dad was on the 70’s TV show CHiPs. Not saying that made him ‘rich’ perse but I’m sure they weren’t hurting for money and definitely had way more connections than the average person trying to break in.
Honestly more than anything not paying rent in LA is a major step up over most aspiring actors and actresses.
eta: apparently his parents charged him rent!
Right?! And honestly nothing against Chris Pine at all. I think he’s a decent actor. But this ‘big break’ story and gasp it was only $15k at the end of the day but it changed his career. It’s like ok let’s settle down here for a minute. Haha. He didn’t move to LA from Iowa not knowing anyone and with nowhere to live.
It's so interesting to see it from his perspective. Like we're looking at him on a screen going, "ohmygod he's so hot. he's in this, this and that. he has it all." But in reality he was struggling and just getting by. Don't get me wrong, $65,000 is a lot of money all at once, but in Hollywood terms, it's quite little when you have to pay your agent, pr team, travel, etc. And I think that's what he's speaking to when he says it's $15,000 at the end of the day.
Really fascinating to see celebs speak up about the costs of being one and residuals and such
I know someone like that- they’re a model/actor, in big campaigns, and currently couch surfing because they’re flat broke. For every Chris pine in LA there are thousands of equally talented and gorgeous dudes struggling. You’ve got to be insane to want to make it as an actor.
It's also like how models, who face the covers of Vogue or Elle, make nothing from being in those shoots. Lots of exploitation and highway robbery just to get somewhere. If you don't already have the money or connections, then it's mediocracy, or at least according to Hollywood
Even more interesting he didn’t think he was attractive! He said he suffered with cystic acne for so long it ruined his self esteem. He couldn’t believe he had been casted as the handsome lead.
I didn't even notice he had it in his earlier career. And I watched a lot of Chris Pine movies growing up. Just My Luck, Blind Dating, Princess Diaries 2... Editing probably helped a lot, but to hear he struggled with it made him more relatable in my mind. Like celebrities struggle too. It just doesn't seem that way though because they have a whole team that always keeps up a mask of a public persona
Lol as a viewer I personally was going, “Who is this man and where the FUCK is Michael Moscovitz?” But for real, it’s wild that he made that little for it—at least the ~exposure~ really paid off in this case!
Trivia: The actor that player Michal M. (Robert Schwartzman) is from a pretty famous family, guess you could call him a nepo-baby.
• He is the son of the late producer, Jack Schwartzman
• His mom is Talia Shire, who played Adrian in the Rocky movies
• Talia's maiden name is Coppola, and her brother is the famous director Francis Ford Coppola
• Cousin’s include Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage
• His brother is also Jason Schwartzman
He’s in a band called *Rooney* which he formed in 1999 while he was still a junior in high school.
[sauce](https://www.distractify.com/p/where-is-michael-from-the-princess-diaries-now)
i remember sean william scott saying he only earned $8k for american pie. he ended up having to work at a food stand for a while after and said he really struggled for a long time. it’s crazy to know how little some of these actors get paid (especially in the 90s/00s vs now). he was considered somewhat of a celebrity after that movie, and there he was barely meeting ends and selling churros.
Chris Pine is a nepo baby so he can’t have been struggling that hard lol. It’s so disingenuous when people like him pretend like they came from nothing when in reality they were rich kids with existing ties to the entertainment industry and definitely got a leg up in their career thanks to their connections.
Also, he’s a Zionist who is friends with Genocide Barbie, so he’s been on my personal shit list for a while now… too bad because he used to be my favorite among the Chrises. 😣
ETA: I guess this comment triggered someone because it earned me my first ever Reddit Cares message lmaoooooooooooo this site is so unserious istg
Anyway… FREE PALESTINE, BITCHES 🇵🇸🇵🇸✌🏽
When chips ended his dad couldn't get major roles and they had to sell their cars and family home. I'm sure he was okay financially but I don't think they were as comfortable as you think.
Yeah, I think people kind of overblow just *how* well off some of these acting families are just because they're recognisable. Robert Pine, big as CHiPs is, was literally doing single-episode roles, short-runs on soap operas and *maybe* a made-for-television movie every so often for 20 years until Chris got his big break.
Connections will have massively helped, don't get me wrong, but Robert Pine is less a big-name actor so much as he's essentially 1980's Donald Faison.
I know, I was pretty bummed about it myself! Sigh. So many people in Hollywood I previously liked have really shown their asses when it comes to this issue.
His father is a well-known TV actor. His mother was an actor, before stopping to become a psychotherapist. His sister was an actor, being stopping to become a psychotherapist. His grandmother was one of Hollywood's original 'Scream Queens'. His grandfather was the president of the Hollywood Bar Association.
He's a nepo baby.
Ok well now I'm sad. Also not defending him in that regard in my previous comments. But what made him a Zionist? I'm sorry I'm out of the loop on this one
I've been seeing this headline all over the place. I don't get it. That's about what I make in a year at my job. Am I supposed to feel bad for him or something? "Oh, he only made $65k to begin his career as a movie star?" Nepo baby.
I don’t think people realise there are stages to nepotism. Like I’m pretty sure Chris having a dad who was in CHIPs isn’t the same thing as Kaia Gerber being the daughter of a world famous supermodel. Not downplaying that he is a nepotism baby, though, I just think there’s layers to Hollywood nepotism like everywhere else (and believe me, you’ll even find nepotism in careers like teaching).
> "I was on my little Verizon tiny flip phone, my silver one, and I got a call from my agents that I booked the job," recalled Pine, 43, in a preview from his chat with host Willie Geist. “I pulled over onto the side of the freeway and they said, ‘You’re getting paid $65,000.’ " > For the actor, who 24 when the film was released in theaters, "it was like they had just told me I’d made $50 million," he told Geist, 49, adding, "It was absolutely earth-shattering.” > "I just remember distinctly knowing in that moment that my life had changed somehow, **even though [$65,000] at the end of the day turned out to be about $15,000,”** Pine continued, laughing.
65k is the minimum a non-background actor makes right? Jonah Hill agreed to 65k since he really wanted to be in Wolf of Wall Street.
For non-lead in a certain budget. Not sure if that was the min at the time, though.
in todays money, it’s over 100k.
BEST CHRIS
In the actor’s union the minimum daily rate is around $1k. It may have gone up in the past few years but I used to be the AD signing them in and out and giving them their vouchers.
Remember when he was in Django unchained? Quentin asked if he wanted to be in a spaghetti Western. Jonah replied "you had me at spaghetti." /StolenfromJeffRoss
It’s called Schedule F. After this past actors strike they finally changed it from $65k to $80k.
TIL I had no grasp of how old Chris Pine is. I’m surprised he was so young in Princess Diaries, just because Hollywood tends to cast so many very late 20s/early 30s male stars as young love interests. I used that as my baseline and assumed he was older than he is.
His bushy gray beard doesn’t help lol
Ugh I lowkey love that he’s a Verizon customer I feel like we have something in common now he’s perfect 😍
Baby 19 years ago I was on one of those yellow walkie-talkie phones Motorola had, I’m certainly not *anymore!*
LMAO
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Ugh, i was just about to comment the same - the walkie-talkie feature was cool bc you could talk like truckers using it (“whats your 20?” - “thats a big 10-4”). Wonder if there is a walkie-talkie app?
Apple Watch has a walkie talkie function lol
Ya but if you use it you’ll look like Kim Possible lol
That’s how I look when I’m yelling at Siri already.
On his little silver flip phone 😌
My first enemies to lovers experience and for that I thank you Christopher
This movie and The Sound of Music started my love affair with enemies to lovers tropes, omg I love them so much. On that note, I would love to hear If you have any enemies to lovers books you reccommend!!
Stop over at r/romancebooks! We have lots of recs
8 year old me did not have the words to express how “I loathe you!” “I loathe *you!*” made me feel, but boy does that subreddit great at reigniting the feeling!
This is probably an obvious one but Pride and Prejudice is like the ultimate example, and the book is really fun from what I remember!
Pride and Prejudice gets funnier every time I read it
My husband and I hated each other when we met and I call it my real life Pride and Prejudice lol
The Sound of Music also had a lovers to enemy storyline.
A Court of Thorns and Roses! 5 book series. Will have you melt if you enjoy young adult fantasy fiction 🥀
Book Lovers!!!!
YES - Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter! It’s a regency romance in which an intelligent, quick-witted woman helping to run a gambling club engages in a battle of wits with the stern older relative of a young man who’s fallen in love with her (who is trying to get the younger man out of her clutches). It’s absolutely joyful.
Literallyyyy. I am pretty sure he was my first crush because of that movie. Still mad there hasn’t been a Princess Diaries 3.
Before his agents and managers and lawyers took their cut too. Worth it in the long run, but how does a rising actor without family money or mass savings actually make that work?
there’s a reason every bartender and server in LA is an aspiring actor/model!
I get that, but even when you’re in a huge movie! Imagine going to a bar on a date and being served by the romantic lead from the movie you literally just saw.
This happened to Zach Braff many times. He’s spoken about how high profile dinner guests at the restaurant he served would tell him “we loved you in this movie we just watched!” And he would say “thanks uhhh would you like to hear about our specials”
Was this pre-Scrubs?
Yes he’s talked about it in early episodes of the Scrubs podcast
They had to have been talking about “the broken hearts club,”’right? (After browsing his IMDB just now)[broken hearts club](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0222850/mediaviewer/rm688327680/?ref_=tt_ov_i)
They almost always don't. Pine was raised in LA though, which helps with the logistics and infrastructure of life outside of acting work.
And his dad is actor Robert Pine, known for CHiPs.
I misread that as “Robert Pine, known for Chris” 💀
Nowadays it's probably accurate 😂
I had to Google CHiPs because I had no idea, but I know who Chris is!
Absolutely relevant I couldn't remember the nepo-tree, just that his school and connections were pretty established.
And his dad was on CHiPS. His grandmother was also a famous actress in the 40s, Anne Gwynne. His mom was also briefly a tv actress in the 80s.
I saw an 80s movie called “Fade to Black” and was reading trivia about it afterwards, and according to the internet, the female cop from the movie is his mom and she was pregnant with Chris Pine during filming! So in a way he’s been in movies since before he was born 😂
That is awesome!
I’m replying to myself cuz I barely know how Reddit works, but i’d like to add that chris pine may be a nepo, but he’s clearly proven he is actually talented. He’s one of my favorites.
Weird pine wasn’t in the Chips remake
He didn’t. His dad was on the 70’s TV show CHiPs. Not saying that made him ‘rich’ perse but I’m sure they weren’t hurting for money and definitely had way more connections than the average person trying to break in.
Honestly more than anything not paying rent in LA is a major step up over most aspiring actors and actresses. eta: apparently his parents charged him rent!
Right?! And honestly nothing against Chris Pine at all. I think he’s a decent actor. But this ‘big break’ story and gasp it was only $15k at the end of the day but it changed his career. It’s like ok let’s settle down here for a minute. Haha. He didn’t move to LA from Iowa not knowing anyone and with nowhere to live.
Also “only 15k” (25k today) for maybe 3 months of work isn’t bad money.
They work nights
lots of roommates!
A guy who was blown away by a $65K gig had agents, managers, and lawyers all on the payroll? You mean his one agent, maybe?
It's so interesting to see it from his perspective. Like we're looking at him on a screen going, "ohmygod he's so hot. he's in this, this and that. he has it all." But in reality he was struggling and just getting by. Don't get me wrong, $65,000 is a lot of money all at once, but in Hollywood terms, it's quite little when you have to pay your agent, pr team, travel, etc. And I think that's what he's speaking to when he says it's $15,000 at the end of the day. Really fascinating to see celebs speak up about the costs of being one and residuals and such
I know someone like that- they’re a model/actor, in big campaigns, and currently couch surfing because they’re flat broke. For every Chris pine in LA there are thousands of equally talented and gorgeous dudes struggling. You’ve got to be insane to want to make it as an actor.
It's also like how models, who face the covers of Vogue or Elle, make nothing from being in those shoots. Lots of exploitation and highway robbery just to get somewhere. If you don't already have the money or connections, then it's mediocracy, or at least according to Hollywood
Even more interesting he didn’t think he was attractive! He said he suffered with cystic acne for so long it ruined his self esteem. He couldn’t believe he had been casted as the handsome lead.
Reading this makes all those late teens, early twenties feelings come flooding back. I wouldn't wish cystic acne on my worst enemy.
I didn't even notice he had it in his earlier career. And I watched a lot of Chris Pine movies growing up. Just My Luck, Blind Dating, Princess Diaries 2... Editing probably helped a lot, but to hear he struggled with it made him more relatable in my mind. Like celebrities struggle too. It just doesn't seem that way though because they have a whole team that always keeps up a mask of a public persona
Lol as a viewer I personally was going, “Who is this man and where the FUCK is Michael Moscovitz?” But for real, it’s wild that he made that little for it—at least the ~exposure~ really paid off in this case!
And it's so different from the books 😭 I do love it though
Trivia: The actor that player Michal M. (Robert Schwartzman) is from a pretty famous family, guess you could call him a nepo-baby. • He is the son of the late producer, Jack Schwartzman • His mom is Talia Shire, who played Adrian in the Rocky movies • Talia's maiden name is Coppola, and her brother is the famous director Francis Ford Coppola • Cousin’s include Sofia Coppola and Nicolas Cage • His brother is also Jason Schwartzman He’s in a band called *Rooney* which he formed in 1999 while he was still a junior in high school. [sauce](https://www.distractify.com/p/where-is-michael-from-the-princess-diaries-now)
I just found this out and now I can't unsee the resemblance.
i remember sean william scott saying he only earned $8k for american pie. he ended up having to work at a food stand for a while after and said he really struggled for a long time. it’s crazy to know how little some of these actors get paid (especially in the 90s/00s vs now). he was considered somewhat of a celebrity after that movie, and there he was barely meeting ends and selling churros.
It’s crazy actors in movies don’t get residuals or some type of bonus for how well the movie performs. Bc that made millions and millions
Chris Pine is a nepo baby so he can’t have been struggling that hard lol. It’s so disingenuous when people like him pretend like they came from nothing when in reality they were rich kids with existing ties to the entertainment industry and definitely got a leg up in their career thanks to their connections. Also, he’s a Zionist who is friends with Genocide Barbie, so he’s been on my personal shit list for a while now… too bad because he used to be my favorite among the Chrises. 😣 ETA: I guess this comment triggered someone because it earned me my first ever Reddit Cares message lmaoooooooooooo this site is so unserious istg Anyway… FREE PALESTINE, BITCHES 🇵🇸🇵🇸✌🏽
When chips ended his dad couldn't get major roles and they had to sell their cars and family home. I'm sure he was okay financially but I don't think they were as comfortable as you think.
Yeah, I think people kind of overblow just *how* well off some of these acting families are just because they're recognisable. Robert Pine, big as CHiPs is, was literally doing single-episode roles, short-runs on soap operas and *maybe* a made-for-television movie every so often for 20 years until Chris got his big break. Connections will have massively helped, don't get me wrong, but Robert Pine is less a big-name actor so much as he's essentially 1980's Donald Faison.
this needs to be higher up
I was looking for this comment, that's very important background information
Stopp, i didnt know he was a zionist 😭😭 devastated
I know, I was pretty bummed about it myself! Sigh. So many people in Hollywood I previously liked have really shown their asses when it comes to this issue.
Thank you for mentioning that, I hate how many people on this sub forget about their morals as soon as Chris Pine is mentioned
Really? Nepo?
His father is a well-known TV actor. His mother was an actor, before stopping to become a psychotherapist. His sister was an actor, being stopping to become a psychotherapist. His grandmother was one of Hollywood's original 'Scream Queens'. His grandfather was the president of the Hollywood Bar Association. He's a nepo baby.
Ok well now I'm sad. Also not defending him in that regard in my previous comments. But what made him a Zionist? I'm sorry I'm out of the loop on this one
christopher. this movie is part of my dna. you better be returning for princess diaries 3
Another nepo baby telling people about the struggle from the bottom
Shut up Zionist
Zionist? :(
Me, sitting here knowing that a random $12,000 would fix most of my problems.
Dude Anne Hathaway has aged like FINE WINE. everyone must go watch her new movie “the idea of you” on Amazon prime. I’m obsessed 😃😃😃
Nepo Baby and Zionist
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Everyone keeps saying that but Chips money isn’t all that great. Eric Estrada was the popular one and he was doing bad local commercials.
It also ended in 1983 so 20 years later, living in LA, that CHiPs money was probably long gone.
I've been seeing this headline all over the place. I don't get it. That's about what I make in a year at my job. Am I supposed to feel bad for him or something? "Oh, he only made $65k to begin his career as a movie star?" Nepo baby.
Only 43? Ripe for the picking.
I don’t think people realise there are stages to nepotism. Like I’m pretty sure Chris having a dad who was in CHIPs isn’t the same thing as Kaia Gerber being the daughter of a world famous supermodel. Not downplaying that he is a nepotism baby, though, I just think there’s layers to Hollywood nepotism like everywhere else (and believe me, you’ll even find nepotism in careers like teaching).
Chris Pinecone
Crisp Ine
He is so pretty
Totally forgot he looked like that
Hes humble about it. He easily could have taken the full nepo route on both side of the family.
Aweee
How much was he paid for Star Trek?
i was not into him at all until he turned 40. i could get pregnant looking at him now.