What Rebel Wilson Was Paid for ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Bridesmaids’

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Rebel Wilson details how Hollywood pay scales can skyrocket in her new memoir. Rebel rising. The actress and comedian talks about her salaries Bridesmaids And the pitch perfect Triple.

Wilson wrote in the book that she earned only $3,500 in 2011 Bridesmaids, which starred Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, and Melissa McCarthy (Wilson played Brynn, Wiig’s obnoxious roommate of Annie Walker). But her entire small check went toward the Screen Actors Guild fee for joining the union. However, Wilson says, “It didn’t matter to me.” “The experience was everything!”

Wilson noted that she booked six new gigs within two weeks of that Bridesmaids“The version, one of them was 2012 a cappella, pitch perfect.

“Boy, did this movie make money!” Wilson writes, noting that she was paid “the SAG minimum, $65,000” for the film. The success of Pitch Perfect spawned two sequels, in 2015 and 2017, and Wilson writes that she ultimately earned $10 million for them. Perfect pitch 3.

Although she admits that the jump was a “pretty big pay rise,” the actress is clear that she had to fight for it.

“At the end of filming Pitch 2“The producers told the older girls, like me, Anna Camp, Anna Kendrick, and Brittany Snow, that we would not be in the third movie,” Wilson wrote. “They were going to replace us all with younger actresses, led by Hailee Steinfeld, whose character was introduced Pitch 2.”

Wilson recalls that the proposed replacement seemed like “a bad, unnecessary thing to say to us hard-working girls,” and she also recalls having to film a scene in which she and her fellow veteran characters handed over the reins to Steinfeld.

“I love Hayley, don’t get me wrong, she’s an excellent performer, but she only joined us in the second movie as a rookie and wasn’t part of the original DNA of the franchise,” Wilson writes, noting that as a trained lawyer, she was able to go to her team using group information. Focus reported that her character was the audience’s favourite.

“I think I was then the highest paid person Pitch 3“, she writes in her diary.

Universal representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.