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Andrew Keegan is sharing specifications of his unreliable residual checks from movies and TV shows.
“I deliberation it’s really funny because I’ll get different shows obviously, but I’ll get 1 cent checks and it costs for illustration 40 cents to send,” nan actor, now 47, said during a caller section of The McBride Rewind, adding, “One cent is not worthy my time.”
Keegan is champion known for his domiciled successful 1999 romcom “10 Things I Hate About You” opposite Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles.
He noted that he’s astir apt seen nan highest magnitude successful residuals from nan iconic teen comedy.
“I deliberation ’10 Things’ is nan biggest residuals,” he divulged. “There are still residuals that travel from each those shows, for illustration $10, $20, $50, $80, right?”
At nan tallness of his fame, Keegan appeared successful a number of precocious floor plan TV bid and movies.
He appeared connected “7th Heaven” from 1997 to 2002, arsenic good arsenic “Party of Five” from 1997 to 1998. In much caller years, he appeared successful “CSI: New York” successful 2010 and “Related” from 2005 to 2006.
Keegan besides had roles successful “Independence Day” (1996) and “The Broken Hearts Club” (2000), among galore others.
Celebrity residuals tin so beryllium unpredictable — while immoderate stars haven’t pulled successful overmuch owed to various factors, others boast millions.
Forbes revealed backmost successful 2013 that Ray Romano rakes successful $18 cardinal per year for his sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which ran from 1996 to 2005.
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But a number of celebrities person much precocious shared their shocking residuals stories, divulging they don’t gain overmuch astatine each for their past activity connected various memorable TV shows.
“Who’s nan Boss” alum Danny Pintauro, now 50, shared penetration on why he now useful arsenic an Amazon Flex transportation driver successful betwixt acting auditions.
“Pretty overmuch everyone misunderstands what residuals mean,” he said during an question and reply pinch Fox News earlier this month.
“It’s crazy to me. People ever presume that if they admit you, you must beryllium financially group for your life, and that’s conscionable not really it works.”
Pintauro explained that he’s “getting 5 to six cents per episode,” of nan 1984 to 1992 sitcom, adding that “they tin aerial it arsenic galore times arsenic they want and I don’t get paid anymore.”
Jodie Sweetin of “Full House,” meanwhile, shared past period connected nan “McBride Rewind” that she “got a one-cent check nan different day.”
Sweetin, 44, added, “There’s nary syndication anymore because it’s each successful streaming. Who gets paid for that? Nobody gets paid for that.”
And “Brady Bunch” prima Eve Plum, 68, wrote successful her recently released memoir “Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond” that if she “had a dime for each rerun section of nan ’70s hit, I’d salary disconnected nan nationalist deficit. I don’t.”
Lisa Kudrow, nevertheless — whose mega-hit “Friends” ran from 1994 to 2004 — continues to person handsome amounts successful residuals.
The actress, 62, told nan Times of London past period that she and her celebrated co-stars from nan NBC drama still make $20 cardinal per year successful residuals.
