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Joe Haden says most people have no idea how quickly an NFL contract disappears once taxes and family expenses hit. “I signed a five-year, $50 million contract.” “I had about $26.6 million guaranteed.” “My first year, I got a $12 million signing bonus.” “After taxes, I only touched around $7 million.” “The first thing I did was give my parents $3 million.” “Then I bought them a $1 million house.” “So right away, about $5 million was gone.” “I bought my brothers cars.” “I bought myself a penthouse.” “I got a Range Rover Sport and a Bentley GT.” “People hear $50 million and think you’ve got $50 million sitting in the bank.” “That’s not how it works.” “You look up after all that and realize you might only have around $1 million left.” “You start understanding real quick that a $50 million contract is not actually $50 million.” “That’s why so many guys go broke.”
KΞRL_✂️14,632,276 views • 2 months ago
Gwyneth Paltrow says Brad Pitt stood up to Harvey Weinstein after he made an unwanted pass at her in a hotel room early in her career. Howard Stern : “You told him, ‘Hey, Harvey just did something really weird.’” Gwyneth Paltrow : “It was weird. I was shocked.” “So what happened was, I told him right away, and I was very shaken by the whole thing. And I had signed up to do two movies with him.” Howard Stern : “Were you afraid that the movies would be cancelled?” Gwyneth Paltrow : “I was afraid.” “We were at the opening of Hamlet on Broadway, and Harvey was there. And Brad Pitt, it was like the equivalent of throwing him against the wall, energetically.” “It was so fantastic, because what he did was he leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn't have fame or power yet.” Howard Stern : “Did he ever tell you what he said to Harvey?” Gwyneth Paltrow : “Yeah, because he came back and told me exactly what he said.” “He said, ‘If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I'll kill you’ or something like that.” “And Harvey was never inappropriate with me again.”
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Jennifer Lawrence says she refused to lose weight for The Hunger Games because she didn’t want young girls to feel they had to look a certain way to be Katniss. “The Hunger Games felt like an awesome responsibility.” “The books were huge, and I knew the audience was children.” “The biggest conversation was about my weight.” “People kept asking, ‘How much weight are you going to lose?’” “They’d say, ‘Well, it’s called The Hunger Games.’” “I didn’t want all the girls dressing up as Katniss to feel like they couldn’t because they weren’t a certain weight.” “I couldn’t let that seep into my brain.” “I just wasn’t going to do that.”
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Amon-Ra St. Brown says the Falcons have some of the worst fans in the NFL. Davante Adams: "We’ve both competed in stadiums all across the country. Which NFL team has the worst fans, and why?" Amon-Ra St. Brown: "That's a layup, that's a layup. but I want to think. All right, I'm going to give two." "I hate Packers fans, just because it's Green Bay and I play for Detroit. But I think some of the worst fans were the Falcons." Davante Adams: "Really?" Amon-Ra St. Brown: "When we played them my rookie year, no one was there. Terrible. I'm like, yo..." Davante Adams: "Oh, so you're looking at it as far as support toward their team? Okay." Amon-Ra St. Brown: "Right. 'Cause I hate Green Bay, their fans. I mean, they have good fans for the team, but I hate 'em. But I don't know, is there that much to do in Atlanta? 'Cause ain't nobody going to the game." Davante Adams: "I haven't had a personal interaction with them, but I feel like Philly always gets it... Philly, the Patriots, and then probably the Bills." "All the snowballs and all of that during the game... like, that's just a lack of respect for another man. You paid to come to my game, and you're more focused on trying to hit me with a snowball." "And then you got the Washington Football Team. I mean, they're obviously just miserable 'cause the stadium is horrible. The city is not great at all. I'm probably going to get somebody at my front door..."
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J.J. Watt says his first reaction to signing a $100 million contract was Googling what rich people buy. “I came home from work that day, and my childhood friend Taylor was hanging out at my house.” “I told him, ‘We did it. We got a deal done.’ He asked what I got, and I said, ‘$100 million.” “We both just looked at each other with the craziest, stupidest grin, thinking this was the most absurd thing ever.” “Then we realized we had absolutely no idea what to do with that much money.” “We literally went to Google and typed in, ‘What do rich people buy?” “We went through lists and lists of yachts, jets, and cars, thinking, ‘I almost have to buy something.” “We kept scrolling and realized, ‘Nah, there’s nothing here I actually need.’ I still haven't bought anything terribly outlandish.”
KΞRL_✂️3,566,117 views • 2 months ago
Glen Powell says Tom Cruise convinced him to stay on Top Gun: Maverick after he lost the role of Rooster. Rich Eisen : “You originally auditioned for the role of Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick.” Glen Powell : “That’s true.” “I felt great about the audition.” “Then I got the call that I wasn’t going to be Rooster.” “I was literally wearing an American flag tank top and aviators.” “I immediately ended up in the fetal position.” “It was the worst Fourth of July ever.” “A few days later, Tom Cruise called me and said, ‘I still want you to do the movie.’” “I wasn’t sure I wanted to anymore.” “He and Jerry Bruckheimer invited me to sit down and talk.” “Tom asked me, ‘What kind of career do you want?’” “I said, ‘Yours. I’m trying to be you.’” “He said, ‘Do you know how I do that?’” “I said, ‘You choose great roles.’” “He said, ‘No. I choose great movies, and I make the roles great.’” “That completely changed my perspective.” “Even being a small part of the Top Gun ride has changed my life forever.”
KΞRL_✂️2,564,844 views • 2 months ago
Henry Cavill says he ate 5,000 calories a day to prepare for his role as Superman in Man of Steel. Rich Eisen : “You achieved 3% body fat for your role as Superman. Is that true or false?” Henry Cavill : “I never took a body fat reading, but I don’t think it was as low as 3%.” “That’s super low.” Rich Eisen : “So that’s false.” Henry Cavill : “That’s false.” “That’s like bodybuilders.” “You can’t hold that.” Rich Eisen : “But is it true you consumed 5,000 calories a day for that role?” Henry Cavill : “Yes.” “When I was building, 5,000 calories.” Rich Eisen : “What were you eating?” Henry Cavill : “A lot.” “A lot of it was in my post-workout shake.” “You put coconut milk in there.” “You can fit a day’s worth of calories into one shake.”
KΞRL_✂️2,506,356 views • 2 months ago
Joe Burrow says seeing his rookie signing bonus hit his account was one of the wildest moments of his life. “My rookie deal was worth about $36 million over four years, with everything guaranteed.” “My signing bonus alone was around $24.6 million.” “The first thing I did was call my financial advisor and ask, ‘What the hell happened?’” “I thought I was getting the full $24 million.” “Then I realized taxes had already taken a huge chunk of it.” “You look at the account and think, ‘Wait… where did the other $12 million go?’”
KΞRL_✂️3,165,091 views • 3 months ago
Micah Parsons says Alabama’s brutal workouts made him realize Bama wasn’t for him Derrick Henry: “Why didn't you go to Bama? What was it?” Micah Parsons: “I'mma tell you right now, and this is the god honest truth. I went to Bama for four days. I'm from up north. It was so hot!” “The workout conditions was so treacherous... 'There's no way in hell I can survive up here.' It was just too much for me.” Derrick Henry: “I mean, that's real. When I was in high school, I went for a workout. I looked at that workout, and I was like, 'I don't know.'” Micah Parsons: “I showed up 6:00 AM. They did like thirty-one tens! I said, 'Oh my god!'” Derrick Henry: “Nah, you telling the truth, cause I've done thirty-one tens before, so you ain't lying.” Micah Parsons: “Came back at 6:00 the next morning. Y'all did like ten 40s in a row, y'all had to come in within the same time frame.” “By the weekend, it was just like... I don't think I can make it. I was sweating on golf carts! I just said, 'It ain't for me. Bama ain't for everybody.'”
KΞRL_✂️695,690 views • 25 days ago
Terence Howard says Harvey Weinstein helped him land a much bigger payday for Iron Man by making a fake $3.5 million offer, then having him reject it so Marvel would see that as his market value. “My quote at the time was around $60,000 a movie. Harvey said, ‘I’m going to offer you $3.5 million for this film. You’re going to decline it in writing, and that’s going to be your quote for Marvel.’” “Once I turned it down, my agent could take that paperwork to Marvel and say, ‘This is what he’s being offered.’” “Harvey didn’t have to pay me the $3.5 million. He was just helping me.”
KΞRL_✂️1,353,386 views • 1 month ago
Cam Newton says the real wealth in the NFL wasn’t his signing bonus, it was seeing massive paychecks hit his account every week. “My rookie contract was worth $22 million guaranteed, and at 20 years old that felt like more money than I could imagine.” “After taxes, a $6 million signing bonus looks a lot different than people think.” “It wasn’t the signing bonus that got me excited.” “It was logging into my account every Tuesday and seeing that green number hit.” “I was looking at around $732,000 every week.” “I tell young guys not to get caught up trying to copy lifestyles they see online.” “Commit to your craft.” “Once you commit to something and become elite at it, the compensation will come.”
KΞRL_✂️2,758,944 views • 3 months ago
Josh Brolin says staying sober only worked once he made sobriety more exciting than the life alcohol gave him. “My job is to make sobriety more fun than my greatest romance with drinking.” “I loved to drink. It was like gasoline. It was fuel.” “I wasn’t someone who could just sip a drink watching TV.” “I’ve been banned from almost every bar on Main Street.” “After one drink, I never knew which version of myself was going to show up.” “Some people had the best night of their lives with me.” “Other people watched me completely change.” “That doesn’t happen anymore, and I’m grateful for it.” “When I got sober, I was willing to lose everything to make it my top priority.” “Only after that could I start building the life I actually wanted.”
KΞRL_✂️2,035,838 views • 2 months ago
Quentin Tarantino says actors aren’t hired to rewrite scripts, they’re hired to deliver them. “Actors aren't there to riff, they're there to say my dialogue, and if their riffing actually happens to be genius, I will just take credit for it” “Uma Thurman once perfectly said that when actors improvise anything beyond basic filler words or cusses, that is called writing, and that is not what you hire an actor to do” “The one exception is Samuel L. Jackson because he is a terrific writer in character who knows how his roles should talk, but he still loves tackling my exact words”
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Ryan Reynolds says his original pitch for Deadpool 2 was so ridiculous the studio completely rejected it. “My first pitch to the studio was that the whole movie would be Deadpool trying to steal the big red chair from The Voice.” “They were like, ‘That’s just the dumbest thing ever.’” “Later, when we pitched X-Force, the studio thought they were getting their own Avengers-style team.” “I told them Brad Pitt was going to be in it.” “They asked, ‘Which character?’” “I said, ‘Vanisher.’” “They asked, ‘What’s his power?’” “I said, ‘He’s invisible and doesn’t speak.’” “They were like, ‘Why is Brad Pitt doing this?’” “I said, ‘Because you see him for about a quarter of a second… when he gets electrocuted to death.’” “And that’s exactly what ended up in the movie.”
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Hugh Jackman says watching Deadpool just days after announcing Logan would be his final Wolverine made him realize he’d made a mistake. “I had announced that Logan was going to be my last Wolverine movie.” “Three days later, I watched Deadpool, and I remember thinking, ‘Oops.’” “I could instantly see those two characters together.” “I could see Midnight Run, 48 Hrs., The Odd Couple, Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” “They were the perfect mismatched duo.” “It took me a while to get over myself.” “But on August 14, 2022, I was driving on the Long Island Expressway and kept asking myself, ‘What do you want to do?’” “And then it hit me: ‘I want to do Deadpool and Wolverine.’” “I pulled over and called Ryan Reynolds.” “I said, ‘Please tell me we can make this movie.’” “He couldn’t believe I was calling because nobody calls anymore.” “And thankfully Kevin Feige, Marvel, and Disney all said yes.”
KΞRL_✂️1,388,677 views • 1 month ago
Samuel L. Jackson says Quentin Tarantino originally didn’t want to tell him he wasn’t playing Django. “He sent me the script without telling me I wasn’t going to be Django.” “He just said, ‘Read it. The character is Stephen.’” “I called him back and said, ‘So you want me to play the most despicable Black man in the history of cinema?’” “He said, ‘Well… yeah.’” “I told him, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’” “He actually toned Stephen down because he said, ‘I don’t want anybody to kill you.’” “People call Quentin racist because of his scripts.” “But every character he’s written for me has been intelligent, respected, and in control.” “It would be impossible for a racist to consistently write characters like that for me.”
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Alan Ritchson says his heart pounded so hard during his screen test for Reacher that it almost cost him the role. "I was never supposed to be Reacher. The character was meant to be 6'5" and I'm 6'3", so I was automatically out." "We were screen testing during COVID, and I was cheating a bit because I had this great setup in my house with an amazing film camera and lights. I even miked myself up." "I did the scene and it went really well, but then Don Granger from Skydance was like, ‘That was a little distracting. Did you guys hear what sounded like drums or something?’" "The showrunner, Nick Santora, said, ‘It almost sounded like a heartbeat to me. That's all I could hear.’ Then they asked me, ‘Are you wearing a microphone?’" “I told them no, snuck off-camera, and ripped the microphone off. I went back in, and ended up getting the part. I got incredibly lucky, but I almost completely lost it.”
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George Kittle says an undrafted rookie shocked the locker room by revealing he made $700,000 in NIL money in college right before signing a $30,000 NFL contract “We had a great rookie class this year. During OTAs, every rookie has to stand up during offensive installs, introduce themselves, and tell a joke. One rookie had a joke that absolutely destroyed the room. It was a full story, and the punchline had everybody crying laughing” “We also make them share their name, school, signing bonus, and now their NIL earnings. One undrafted rookie said he got a $30,000 signing bonus, and we were all like, ‘Oh, nice, good for you, man.’ Then he said, ‘I made $700,000 from NIL.’ I was like, ‘Why did you even declare for the draft? Play another year!’” “Some guys in this rookie class made more than $1 million in NIL. I can’t even imagine making that kind of money as a college athlete” “At Iowa, I probably would’ve made maybe $25,000, and even that would’ve felt unbelievable. Imagine getting a $25,000 check as a college student. You could get a great apartment and not have to worry about money”
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Viola davis says that she is done doing love scenes unless her on-screen partner has a "big gut". Amy Poehler : “You don’t like doing love scenes?” Viola Davis : “I can’t stand them. I don’t like watching them, and I don’t like doing them.” “I finally told How to Get Away with Murder, that I wasn’t doing any more love scenes unless they gave me a boyfriend with a big gut.” “Because then you’d actually have to write the scene. It wouldn’t just be about taking off a shirt and showing six-pack abs.” “I remember filming a scene with Billy Brown, and they had him walking around shirtless with perfect abs while we were trying to deliver dialogue.” “They even had him slapping a scrub brush against his hand like he was slapping my butt, and I kept thinking, ‘Please cut. Please cut.’ It was a nightmare.” “If you write someone with a gut,maybe it'll be about everything else. And then when they finally kiss, it's like something that's organically happening.
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Jason Weaver says Disney originally offered him a $2 million upfront paycheck for singing young Simba’s parts in The Lion King, but his mom turned it down because the deal didn’t include royalties. “Disney offered me $2 million upfront with no royalties just to do the singing parts. To an average middle-class family from Chicago in the early '90s, that kind of money was insane.” “But after the initial excitement wore off, my mom asked, ‘Is that all he ever gets for the rest of his life?’ When they said yes, she turned it down and insisted on negotiating for royalties instead.” “At the time, Disney didn't give royalty deals to relatively unknown kids, but my mom saw the bigger picture. She knew the franchise was going to make billions from theme parks, games, and merchandise.” “So I took a much lower check around $100,000 just to secure those royalties. Giving up nearly $1.9 million upfront was a massive gamble, especially since my biggest paycheck before that was $80,000 playing Michael Jackson.”
KΞRL_✂️936,327 views • 1 month ago