• Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    they tried something similar(not so similar) with scarlett johansan, where they tried to sneakingly use the streaming income to avoid paying her what she was owed on her contract.

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    I sort of find it funny and sad that some people expect another person to do the same work (or similar) for half the salary. While most of us would not do that if it wasn’t needed. Sure, he’s rich but money is money.

    Would you do the same work you’re currently doing for half the salary when you know, you can get the same or better salary elsewhere? I don’t think so.

    Renner went on to suggest that the proposed lower salary was a result of his near-fatal 2023

    Though his take on this is… well, odd.

    “This is not Marvel, mind you. This is like, just Disney, not even really Disney. It’s just the penny pinchers, the accountants. I told them to go fly a kite. I mean, just at the at the insult offer. So we didn’t see eye to eye on it,”

    It’s sad that he became arrogant. He could’ve just let it at “no, I will not do it”.

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      I don’t know about the specific of the deal or what S2 will actually contain, but as I understand S1 set up a new Hawkeye so maybe S2 would’ve had Renner not as the main character and possibly not doing the same amount of work. If he is going to do less work it would make sense to also pay less. This of course is speculation as we don’t know actually know what S2 would’ve been about or what deal was presented to Renner. All we know is Renners side where he claims it would’ve been the same amount of work and I don’t think I need to explain how that can’t be taken as the absolute truth. The rest of what he said really makes me question if he’s being completely honest or is he skewing the story to make himself look like the good guy.

      But if he is telling the truth it would be pretty fucked up to offer half the salary for the same amount of work.

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        Many people are ignoring another part of the formula. Actors draw views. Renner is the main interest I have in Hawkeye. Kate Bishop is a fine character, but personally Renner is why I watched season 1. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’nofrio are the reason I watched the new Daredevil series.

        Renner might be blowing it out of proportion, but the reality is without his involvement I’m probably going to skip it.

        I’ll give each character a chance to stand on their own but I’m not personally interested in Kate Bishop as a story driver.

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          I get that his name draws views but I don’t think that’s a factor going from S1 to S2. It’s not like he went from nobody to somebody. He was already popular prior to S1, he didn’t get more popular between seasons. His S1 salary probably already accounted for his popularity so it was most likely also accounted in the S2 salary. But, if he thinks he should’ve been paid more because of his name recognition then that’s him pretty much trying to do the same thing he’s blaming the accountants for, he would be trying to squeeze out every penny from his popularity.

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      15 hours ago

      If i made millions doing very little work in a job that simmers down slowly, because all i peoduce is slob that no one cares for. Yes, i might take a paycut.

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        it wont stop there, now they know your “easy to bait and switch” so they will offer even less next time.

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        That’s what you say now because you are not in that situation. But I’m quite certain you would not. Because if you know, you used to have for example 500k salary and suddenly it would be 250k, you would refuse and want the full 500k. No matter whether you produce “slob”.

        I certainly would not be okay with getting my salary suddenly halved. No matter what kind of work or salary it first was.

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    Maybe they’re speculating only half the people will watch it, based on previous trends. I sure didn’t watch the first one.

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      They can get a masked CGI to do it for less. CGI A.I. body doubles is gonna make them rich.

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      I was never a fan of his, but when I saw this I decided he’s just not a good person. What a gross thing to do to people who support you. I hope to not have to see him in anything going forward.

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    Hopefully there’s no season 2 of hawkeye, the first one was shite. I tried really hard but couldn’t get past the first 2 episodes

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    Oh no… rich person gets offered to be paid millions instead of being paid millions…

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      I never understand this mindset. It reminds me of people who complain about NFL players all while the owners rake in billions. Like why y’all mad at the labor? Be mad at the owner.

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      Think worker vs shareholder, not just rich vs poor. Never take a job for less, always negotiate, or you’re only leaving more money for the owners

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        Also, plenty of these people will take lower paying jobs, just not from Disney and not from a multi billion dollar franchise.

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          not if your already famous, and already been paid a certain amount before, you wouldnt want to get paid less. maybe if your starting out as an actor and need some spotlight.

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        Respect has a price huh? Also there are no details why he got paid more. Does he olny appear half the time? Is he just a cameo? No surley he’s just a poor multi millionaire with his own social media app

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    Depends on how much his character was supposed appear.

    If it was just cameos, with Kate Bishop/Hailee Steinfeld getting most of the screentime, then of course.

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    Good for him, and he’s just asking for his original salary. Pay this man!👏👏👏 Isn’t Hawkeye supposed to be one of the better Marvel Disney+ shows anyway? Watch them come crawling back

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      I didn’t watch it but my understanding is that Hawkeye passed on the torch and he probably was going to be more in the background instead of the star. I don’t know the exact parameters but I imagine it would not be as much screen time or physically demanding scenes. Fuck Disney for being a shitty company but I’m not sure if this is 100% attributable to that.

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        they got in trouble for trying to use AI to replace the actors, they are probably trying constructive dismissal type of thing to get them to leave the industry, and disney can say, we cant find any actors, so we are forced to use AI

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          How/when did they get in trouble? I didn’t hear anything about it and nothing came up immediately after a search. It seems like a huge jump to say that they are going to be forced out of the industry. Additionally, he was still offered millions of dollars. Plenty of people would have jumped at the opportunity.

          AI is definitely going to be a problem for the industry but your comment seems like a stretch.

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          WandaVision was good. Loki was great. Falcon & TWS was good. Ms Marvel was good. Moon Knight was decent. Agatha All Along was good. What If…? had two decent seasons.

          She-Hulk was meh. Hawkeye was meh. Echo was meh.

          Secret Invasion was terrible.

          Never watched Werewolf By Night.

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      It was campy. Not great, but not terrible. Formulaic but overall okay.

      I feel like The Marvels (I think?) ties the ending of Hawkeye with the rest of the MCU.

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    I saw season one as kind of passing the torch anyway. If he didn’t appear in season two, the show would be just fine without him.

    I’m a Hawkeye fan, not a Renner fan.

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    His ‘joke’ about a ‘fictional character’ being a slut tells me all I need to know about him. He is insufferable and everything I have seen him in was made worse by his presence.