Former teen heartthrob Andrew Keegan reveals which movies he nonetheless makes cash from years later

The actor Andrew Keegan continues to be getting cash from a few of his previous films years after they have been and gone because of one thing known as residuals.

You see, again in his teenage heartthrob days when he was forged within the likes of 10 Issues I Hate About You and The Damaged Hearts Membership the cash he was making from the movies got here from his charge as an actor.

However many films will proceed to pay their actors proceeds from the film because it continues to earn a living all through the years within the type of residuals.

The actors receives a commission for being within the film, typically in addition they receives a commission a portion of the cash the movie truly makes in the event that they negotiate that, however residuals imply small quantities of money preserve getting despatched their means.

In a current look on The McBride Rewind podcast Keegan defined he was nonetheless getting paid from all of his previous tasks, however earlier than you assume he is raking it in a few of these cheques have been for as little as one cent.

Keegan mentioned it price 40 cents to ship him a cheque, so if he is getting a cent in residuals from an previous TV present he did it is costing way more cash to proceed sending it and he isn’t going to money it in because it’s ‘not value my time’.

Nonetheless, some issues he did in his profession do pay a bit greater than a cent, and to no person’s shock 10 Issues I Hate About You is high of the earners.

“There are nonetheless residuals that come from all these exhibits, they’re similar to $10, $20, $50, $80,” he instructed the podcast.

Relying on how profitable a movie or TV present is even actors who solely had a minor half can nonetheless make an honest quantity, although not sufficient that they needn’t work.

Reece Thompson, one of many youngster actors in Titanic, mentioned in 2018 that on a few events he acquired $250, however more often than not it was round $100 they usually did not come fairly often.

In the meantime, Casey Margolis and his star making flip as ‘Youthful Seth’ from Superbad has earned just a few hundred {dollars} from his residuals for enjoying the position of a kid who attracts dicks on every thing.

He mentioned each few months he’d get a cheque starting from just a few cents to as a lot as ‘100 bucks’.

Not each actor will get residuals, Drake Bell of Drake & Josh fame defined he did not get residuals from the present however some visitor begins who have been solely in it for a short time did.

Drake defined that the aim for a TV star was making it to 100 episodes as a result of then a present might get syndicated and that will be an enormous residual payday for everybody concerned.

His co-star Josh Peck defined that ‘youngsters TV would not have residuals’ so whereas they have been paid an honest quantity for being on TV the wonga would not preserve coming endlessly on each job.