Well, I hope creativity does. But when a producer wants you so bad to do something you're almost fed up with, you might be persuaded by some extra bucks. I mean, tehre are some actors of whom I wonder why they do certain pics. Take Nicolas Cage for instance, he's done some great films and some really lousy ones. I make me wonder why he does those. Or Alec Baldwin, he was a coming star after The Hunt for Red October and he some some major crappy movies after that.
But in the real world do they really need 20million dollars, or sometimes more. No they don't.
Bottom line is that movie stars do it for the money, it's the actors who do it for the creativity.
Sadly, Hollywood has too many of the former and doesn't employ enough of the latter and I think that is a spreading problem across the mainstream movie making community.
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That's not the entire story though, RC. Mind you, studio's and producers make so much money when a good actors stars in a movie. Why shouldn't they, since they producers and studio use them as sales items, not want a decent cut in the share. It's all nice an dandy to just do it for the creativity but if you see a studio run off with dozens of millions of dollars paid by people who've come to see you as an actor, it's only fair to get paid accordingly. The real greedy money people are the producers. Trust me, I know.