How does Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson’s pay stack up against other Marvel superheroes?
- Larson will walk away from the movie with more than Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Chadwick Boseman earned for their first MCU movies
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will gets its first stand-alone female superhero movie on March 8 when Captain Marvel hits the big screen. Its main star Brie Larson will walk away from the movie with more than Robert Downey Jnr, Chris Evans and Chadwick Boseman earned for their first MCU movies.
In a Hollywood Reporter profile on Larson, the trade magazine revealed Larson will earn US$5 million to star. Disney is historically stingy in paying its actors, especially their first time out of the gate in a Marvel movie, so props to Larson’s agent.
Just how tight can the studio be with its cash?
Here is what five other actors were paid during their time in the MCU:
Chris Hemsworth – US$150,000 for ‘Thor’ (2011)
It makes sense that this Chris got so little. The actor did not have many credits to his name when he came on to play Odin’s son in the first movie. But he has got leverage now. Hemsworth has been earning US$15 million pay days since Thor: Ragnarok.
Robert Downey Jnr – US$500,000 for ‘Iron Man’ (2008)
Yeah, Marvel got RDJ cheap in 2008 (following box-office milestones for the first Iron Man, Downey’s eventual pay was US$2.5 million). An Oscar-nominated actor and one of the best of his era, Downey Jnr was still repairing his career following substance abuse at the time he was cast in the movie that would launch the MCU. He has been rewarded since then, earning US$50 million for the first Avengers movie, US$80 million for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and US$10 million for the handful of scenes in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
