The Game of Thrones cast get paid more per episode than we do in 20 years and frankly, we need a drink.
In a survey conducted by Variety,
the salaries of the highest-paid actors on TV have been unveiled, with
the wealthy stars of HBO’s fantasy epic very high up in the drama
category.
Peter
Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Kit
Harington (Jon Snow), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) and Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) make a somewhat sickening grand total of
$500,000 per episode.
Tyrion,
Cersei, Jon, Daenerys and Jaime are seen as the biggest stars of the
show by HBO, which explains why they make the most cash-but does it mean
they’re going to make it to the end?
Just last month, Sansa Stark actress
Sophie Turner revealed a Game of Thrones shocker when she said more
people will die in season seven.
“We’ve
got one more season… well, not all of us,” Sophie explained. Alexander
Siddig, the actor who played Doran Martell, has also said that he was
pissed about his character randomly getting killed.
Though it seems he’s not receiving the
$500,000 pay cheque per episode, as Siddig added: “You don’t earn as
much as you would if you were doing another show, because they’re Game
of Thrones, and they don’t have to pay anyone. So it’s kind of a
blessing in disguise.”
Game of Thrones will return to HBO in summer 2017, later than its usual April launch.
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