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Do actors get paid extra to shave their heads or get fat?
By: Tejal, England
A.B. Replies: Natalie Portman already gets paid roughly $5 million to do little more than speak in a bad English accent or weep into some beaded space lingerie while her space husband goes space evil.
That's plenty of money, thanks, and movie producers know it. When it came time to shave her head for V for Vendetta, my sources tell me Portman took not a penny more than her standard multimillion-dollar fee.
Unless they are extras, who get additional compensation for cutting or dying their hair, actors usually--usually--do not receive pay bonuses for drastic alterations to their appearance.
It doesn't matter whether it's George Clooney channeling his inner porker for Syriana, Christian Bale wasting away for The Machinist, Halle Berry sprouting a rock-hard pair of bocce-ball buttocks for Catwoman or Lindsay Lohan just trying really hard not to look used up in A Prairie Home Companion.
Most of the time, the pay is the same: merely high.
"Changing your look is considered a requirement for the job," says a well-placed B!tch Intelligence Source, who's all up in the grill of Hollywood agents. "Halfway through a movie, if you have to shave your head, you don't get paid extra for that. It's super rare for extra pay to happen like that."
The most notable exceptions to this fact are the kind that cannot be confirmed, but they have been widely reported. For example, a few years ago, IMDb reported that Renée Zellweger got paid an additional $3.2 million on top of her $11 million paycheck for inflating like Kenan Thompson for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
That story got picked up everywhere from Colorado to Kamloops, but it was largely accredited to the same source. However, this B!tch suspects that if the story were false, Zellweger would have crawled out of her chipmunk warren at some point or another and denied it.
Additionally, Sigourney Weaver sought extra cash for shaving her noggin for Alien 3. "Because of production problems, filming was halted," one California paper wrote last month.
"When it resumed months later, Weaver's hair had grown back. She would have it reshaved only for a $40,000 bonus. The producers decided to save money and paid $16,000 to have a bald cap with very short hair."
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