8 Actors Who Were Paid Huge Salaries For Very Little Work

Aside from star Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames is the only actor to have appeared in all four entries in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Despite only appearing for a brief cameo appearance in the final scene of Ghost Protocol, the actor must have had some form of iron-clad contract to appear in the movie seeing as he netted $7.7m for a day's work. As ridiculous as it sounds, Rhames himself had this to say about the movie during press rounds for Death Race 2 back in 2010;

"If I'm not paid properly, will I be working again on this one? No. I live a very simple life. If I'm supposed to make $7.7m and they're offering me $3m, I don't know if that's going to work. I did the last one for more than $3m, there's no misunderstanding; it's $7.7m or no!"

This must be a contractual issue. When you consider that Tom Cruise's deal has seen him earn well over $250m from the four movies, it stands to reason that Rhames would have something similar albeit on a much smaller scale. It could have been costlier for the studio to leave him out of the movie altogether had it broken the terms of his contract, but $7.7m for a single scene is mind-boggling. If you're going to pay him that amount of money, just give the man a proper supporting role seeing as he's been an integral part of the franchise since 1996!