Lord of the Rings Actor Salary:The Lord of the Rings series has been liked a lot by the audience. All three parts of this film have received a lot of love from the public. All three parts of this film earned around 2.9 billion dollars worldwide. But the lead actor says that he was paid only a few lakh rupees as fee. Not only him, the rest of the actors have also not received much money.
Cate Blanchett got only this much money
In a conversation on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the franchise’s lead actress Cate Blanchett was asked about her highest salary. Cohen said that it could be ‘Lord of the Rings’.
On this Kat asked are you joking? She said that no one has received any payment for this film. When Kat was asked that she must have received a share of its profit. On this she said that “No! It was much earlier than that. No, I didn’t find anything.”
Why did Cate Blanchett work on the trilogy?
About her decision to work in the trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, she said, “I wanted to work with the person who made ‘Braindead'”. Blanchett played Galadriel in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, a royal elf in Middle Earth who has powerful magical powers. The Oscar-winning actor reprised her role in the director’s Hobbit film series, which was a prequel to Lord of the Rings.
Prince Legolas was also underpaid
The actor said, ‘I basically got sandwiches, and I had to keep my elf ears’. Blanchett said about her salary in the film, ‘Women don’t get paid as much as you think.’ However, it’s not just Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, who played the role of elven prince Legolas, revealed on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ last year that he earned just $175,000 (Rs 80 lakh) for all three films.