11. Julia Roberts – The Blind Side – $20 million
This was not the usual set up for Sandra Bullock as she headed into her eventual Oscar-winning performance for the 2009 drama The Blind Side. The brunette ended up dividing a profit share from the dividends that would come the picture’s way following on from all the love at the Academy Awards andBullock won out big when she agreed to cut her initial $10 million salary in half to $5 million, collecting a reported $15 million plus in add ons.
This would have been a big turn off for Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich actress Julia Roberts who would have baulked at the derisory figure and instead passed up the opportunity not only for a big payday but a golden statue to boot. Roberts is not short of a dollar these days and coming off another film alongside her BFF George Clooney in Money Monster, there is every chance she has used that 2009 wrong call to spur her on to bigger and better things. But that $20 million plus an Oscar would have been handy.
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