At the end of July, the Prime Minister of the Canadian province of Alberta Jason Kenny announced the budget for the series based on The last of us for channel HBO will amount to an impressive $ 200 million a year.
In continuation of this topic, today it became known about what fee will receive Pedro Pascal for filming the series.
Interesting numbers surfaced in a Vareity piece on how the streaming boom keeps TV salaries high. So, according to the information released to the public, each episode “Some of us“will bring Pascal 600 thousand dollars… It is easy to calculate that if only ten episodes are announced for the first season, then the total payment to the actor for the work will be 6 million dollars…
For comparison, in the same article “checks” of other stars are given. For example, Henry Cavill each episode of The Witcher brought $ 400,000, David harbor gets now 350-400 thousand dollars for one episode of “Stranger Things”, Kate Winslet participated in “Meir of Easttown”, receiving 650 thousand dollars per episode, but call Jeff Bridges the main role in the upcoming multi-part action-thriller “The Old Man” cost the FX channel in 1 million dollars per episode.
The production of The Last of Us is scheduled to be completed by June 2023. No release date yet.
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