Sophia Bush is revealing simply how a lot she earned on One Tree Hill.
The actress, 43, performed Brooke Davis for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2012, however regardless of showing on successful primetime present on community tv, she solely not too long ago began getting paid her value.
“I’m actually gonna bum you out,” Bush stated when requested about how a lot cash she made on the teenager drama throughout an interview on the “Networth and Chill With Your Wealthy BFF” podcast on Wednesday, November 12.
Bush informed host Vivian Tu that she didn’t have loads of leverage to barter her wage when she signed up for the present as a result of she was nonetheless contemporary out of faculty.
Ravens eternally! One Tree Hill could have led to 2012, however the casts’ friendships have stood the check of time. “We’ve identified one another for nearly 20 years now. Our friendships have modified immeasurably,” Sophia Bush, who performed Brooke Davis on the teenager drama, informed Us Weekly completely in December 2020. “We’ve been by way of so […]
“You get employed, and particularly as a teenager, you don’t have a quote. And should you’ve not been a daily on one thing earlier than, you have got actually no quote,” she defined. “So once I began on that present, just about everybody was coming from one thing. Hilarie [Burton] had been a VJ, [Bethany] Pleasure [Lenz] had been on cleaning soap operas. I had been the philanthropy chair of my sorority at USC.”
“The distinction in pay scale was wild,” Bush continued. “As soon as I paid 10% to my managers, 10% to my brokers, 5% to my attorneys, paid a publicist payment, paid my taxes after which paid the $3,000 a month that my two-bedroom condo in Wilmington value me, I used to be taking dwelling about $3,000 an episode.”
The Gray’s Anatomy star stated there was little room for renegotiation due to the size of the contract she initially signed.
“Whenever you signal a TV contract, you signal a contract for six years. They will cancel your present at any time, however you possibly can’t depart or ask for a increase since you’re on a six-year deal,” stated the actress.
Bush additionally revealed that she and the remainder of the One Tree Hill forged don’t make any further revenue from the present regaining recognition within the streaming age.
“What you actually hope works for you in TV, even should you’re not making some huge cash on the time, is, effectively, [hopefully] we’ll get syndicated and we’ll get residuals. Besides after we signed to do this fantastic present that all of us liked, there was no streaming,” she stated. “Our present is [now] syndicated on streaming, which implies the studio that owns the present makes all of the residuals, and we don’t.”
“Look, it’s what it’s. That’s the breaks. Nonetheless a champagne drawback,” she added, expressing gratitude for nonetheless with the ability to make a dwelling as an actor.
Bush — whose different credit embrace Chicago P.D. and the short-lived medical drama Good Sam — stated that after 20 years within the enterprise, she is now capable of get pay parity together with her male costars.
Standing collectively. The ladies of One Tree Hill first went public with harassment allegations towards creator Mark Schwahn in 2017, and 6 years later, the actresses say it’s necessary to maintain speaking about his alleged actions. “Till there’s some sort of change in our trade, I don’t understand how we cease [speaking out],” Hilarie Burton […]
“It’s all the time a hustle,” she stated. “It took me 20 years on this trade, doing 15 straight years of community TV with out taking a 12 months off … actually, 12 months 20 was the primary time I acquired paid equally to my male costar.”
“It was a battle. And no shock to anybody who is aware of me, I gained. I used to be like, ‘We’re not doing this anymore,’” she added.
