12 Actors Who Admitted Doing A Movie Purely For The Money

5. Bruce Willis - Jimmy Monroe (Cop Out)

It would be an understatement to say that director Kevin Smith didn€™t quite gel with Bruce Willis making Cop Out. His initial excitement at working with the star of Die Hard quickly vanished when he realised Willis didn€™t care about the movie at all, and refused to take direction. He€™d regularly show up late; he€™d rip pages out of the script and his zoned out performance drained the humour out of every scene. During one of the many arguments he had with Smith he flat out said he was only there for the money, which must have been an encouraging thing for the crew to hear. Bruce Willis coasting along for easy money could refer to nearly any of his roles in the last decade, especially the action ones. He walked away from a few days work on The Expendables 3 because he wanted $4 million, and they only offered him a paltry $3 million. Luckily somebody was ready to inherit that cheque...
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