Everybody knows that Hollywood actors get paid way too much - it's part and parcel of the whole gig. And although the general public tend to chastise these excessively rich individuals for taking such high pay packages with each and every motion picture, you gotta ask yourself... wouldn't you do the same? That's to say, if somebody offers to pay you $25 million dollars for a role or $1 million dollars for the exact same role, it's pretty much a no-brainer as to which one you'd take. So although we often hear about the likes of Robert Downey Jr. being paid $50 million to reprise his role as Tony Stark, or Johnny Depp being paid literally whatever he wants to turn up wearing Jack Sparrow's costume for another time, occasionally Hollywood actors do agree to appear in movies for astonishingly low pay checks - the sort of pay checks that seem ridiculously cheap within the realms of the movie business, but would prove otherwise satisfactory to normal folk. Join us, then, as we take a look at 10 instances of famous actors taking on a bunch of famous roles for what - in the context of Hollywood salaries, at least - appears to be very little money. Why did these actors agree to such terms, you ask? A combination of reasons, really: be it that they loved the role so much that money wasn't their major concern, that they were desperate for work at the time, were new to the business, or because they managed to negotiate a deal...
