Chris Pine called the paycheck he earned for ‘Princess Diaries 2’ ‘earth-shattering,’ saying it felt like $50 million
Pine, 43, is Willie Geist’s guest for his Sunday Sitdown on the Sunday, May 5, episode of Today, and a preview clip shows the actor talking about his first major role as Nicholas Deveraux in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. He told Geist that the role paid him just $65,000, but it felt like so much more.
The 2004 film wasn’t Pine’s first acting job, but it kick-started his career just out of college. In the sequel to Anne Hathaway’s 2001 movie The Princess Diaries, Pine plays one of Hathaway’s suitors. And like it is for most people, that first paycheck didn’t last Pine long. He says he owed his parents rent money at the time and was already overdrawn by $400 on his bank account.Things have probably gotten easier for Pine over the past 20 years. He has since appeared as Captain Kirk in three Star Trek movies and as Steve Trevor in a pair of Wonder Woman films, among dozens of other film and TV credits. Despite all that success, Pine said he would be open to reprising his role as Nicholas.
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