20 times actors were drastically underpaid for iconic roles

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18) ⁠Harrison Ford - Star Wars: A New Hope

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Harrison Ford was paid a mere $10,000 for Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), not a bad sum considering that that film earned $775 million worldwide. At the time, Ford was a carpenter doing odd acting work just to get by. It wasn't long before Star Wars catapulted him to superstardom status, then onto multimillion-dollar salaries for subsequent roles, including those Star Wars sequels, for which he reportedly commanded $25 million for The Force Awakens.

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