Daniel Radcliffe, who landed the title role in Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone, is getting a substantial pay boost following a
threat by the British actors’ union Equity to boycott future Harry
Potter projects unless his payment was increased.
According to the
London Daily Mirror, he was to have received just $110,000 for
the first Potter movie and $182,000 for the second, a figure that Equity described as “paltry.” The 12-year-old actor is now due to
receive $3 million.
“It was a scandal that Dan was being paid so little
when the movie is going to be so big,” an unnamed insider told the
Mirror.
“Dan is going to be on the merchandising products that
are going to generate untold millions. Him (sic) getting a couple of
hundred thousand hardly seemed fair.”
