Sydney Sweeney is reportedly enjoying a huge pay rise following the huge success of her 2023 romantic comedy Everyone But You.
While Sweeney’s fee for the film was $2 million, he is now charging millions more for his next film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The 27-year-old will 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, his film co-starring Glen Powell. The film was made with a budget of $25 million, but grossed $220 million at the box office.
THR reports that The Housemaid’s payday now makes the star one of the highest-paid actresses of her generation.
Sydney Sweeney is reportedly enjoying a huge pay rise following the huge success of her 2023 romantic comedy Everyone But You.
Zendaya appears to be the one leading the pack after earning $10 million for starring in and producing the hit tennis movie Challengers.
Regarding Sydney’s salary increase, THR notes that it is unusual in Hollywood.
However, the actress has become highly sought after and, amid her success, has landed several smart roles, including two biopics, one about Sammy Davis. Jr’s romance with Kim Novak and another about professional boxer Christy Martin.
THR notes that a portion of the pay increase takes into account the backend profits Sydney made from Everyone But You, a figure the outlet says is believed to be in the millions.
Sources also shared that Sydney received an executive producing fee of $250,000 for the film.
Additionally, THR reports that Sydney was crucial in bringing Everyone But You to fruition. A source said Sydney agreed to appear for the first time in Madame Web to help get the romantic comedy greenlit.
The source said Sydney took on the role to show Sony Pictures that “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 will 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, his film co-starring Glen Powell.
She also earned $250,000 for the 2024 horror film Immaculate, although she also served as a producer on the film.
Sydney has been working hard to film the upcoming Christy Martin biopic and earlier this month announced that she had been cast in The Housemaid, a film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s book of the same name.
He will star alongside 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 script for the big screen, according to Deadline.
In the addictive 336-page novel with a surprising twist, maid Millie lusts after Nina Winchester’s “beautiful, broken” husband, Andrew Winchester, while caring for her daughter and living in her attic (which ominously only locks from the outside).
The film was made with a budget of $25 million, but grossed $220 million at the box office.
‘I only try on one of Nina’s immaculate white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But he soon finds out… and when I realize that the door to my attic room only closes from the outside, it’s too late,” the book’s logline reads.
‘But I calm down: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…’