10 Actors Who Got Paid To NOT Star In Movies

10. Johnny Depp - Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 3

In recent months, Johnny Depp has been involved in a whirlwind of controversy thanks to emerging stories of domestic violence between him and ex-wife Amber Heard.

Whilst Depp and Heard have vehemently accused each other, leading to major fallouts and public backlash against both of them, Depp was labeled a ‘wife-beater’ by a writer of The Sun newspaper. In turn, Depp took the The Sun’s publisher and the paper’s executive editor Dan Wootton to court, but he lost the trial, and the result has caused Depp’s reputation to plummet.

Despite being playing a major character in J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them film series, Warner Bros has stepped in and told Depp to resign from the third production currently in production.

Depp agreed to the terms and has been paid at least 10 million dollars for his one day of shooting because of contractual agreements.

His part of Gellert Grindelwald has now been given to Danish actor Mads Mikkelson, and the film is continuing production without Depp with a 2022 release date. As for Depp, he is currently appealing against the result of the trial in an effort to salvage his reputation and career.