Sydney Sweeney is reportedly enjoying a huge pay rise following the smash success of her 2023 rom-com Everyone But You.
While Sweeney’s fee for the film was $2 million, she is now asking for millions more for her next film. The Hollywood Reporter.
The 27-year-old is set to earn $7.5 million for The Housemaid, her new film starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by Paul Feig.
The pay increase comes less than a year after the release of Everyone But You, her film starring Glen Powell. The film was made on a budget of $25 million, but grossed $220 million at the box office.
THR reports that The Housemaid payoff now makes the star one of the highest-paid actresses of her generation.
Sydney Sweeney is reportedly enjoying a huge pay rise following the smash success of her 2023 romcom, Everyone But You
Zendaya appears to be the one leading the pack after earning $10 million for starring in and producing the hit tennis film Challengers.
THR notes that the pay increase in Sydney is unusual in Hollywood.
However, the actress has become highly sought after and despite her success has a number of smart roles to her name, including two biopics – one about Sammy Davis. Jr’s romance with Kim Novak and another about professional boxer Christy Martin.
THR notes that part of the pay increase will take into account the backend profits Sydney has reaped from Everyone But You, a figure the outlet estimates is in the millions.
Sources also shared that Sydney earned a production fee of $250,000 from the film.
Additionally, THR reports that Sydney was crucial in getting Everyone But You made. An insider said Sydney agreed to make her first appearance in Madame Web to greenlight the rom-com.
The source said Sydney took on the role to show Sony Pictures “she was a team player.”
Before making Everyone But You and Madame Web, Sydney filmed the biopic Reality, for which she reportedly earned $65,000.
The 27-year-old is set to earn $7.5 million for The Housemaid, her new film starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by Paul Feig
The pay increase comes less than a year after the release of Everyone But You, her film starring Glen Powell
She also earned $250,000 for the 2024 horror film Immaculate, but she also served as a producer on the film.
Sydney has been hard at work filming the upcoming Christy Martin biopic and earlier this month she announced she had been cast in The Housemaid, a film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s book of the same name.
She will star opposite Amanda Seyfried, and both will also serve as executive producers of the film.
Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Vampire Diaries, The Boys and Archive 81) was hired to adapt the screenplay to the big screen – according to Term.
In the 336-page addictive novel with a breathtaking twist, housekeeper Millie lusts after Nina Winchester’s “broken, handsome” husband Andrew Winchester while she cares for their daughter and lives in their attic (which, ominously, can only be locked from the outside).
The film was made on a budget of $25 million, but grossed $220 million at the box office
‘I only tried on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize that the door to my attic bedroom only locks from the outside, it’s far too late,” reads the book’s logline.
“But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…