Zendaya has a lot to thank Rue Bennett, her character from the series Euphoria. With him she went from being a Disney girl to a world star, winner of two Emmy awards and a Golden Globe; And now, at only 26 years old, getting back into his skin will mean pocketing a million dollars per episode in the upcoming third season of the famous HBO production, which will start filming shortly and is scheduled to premiere in 2024. , five years after the first.
With this rate per episode, Zendaya enters the select million club, which only belongs to a lucky few who earn at least that amount per episode of a television series. In 2022, stars such as Chris Pratt, who pocketed 1.4 million per chapter of The Final List (Amazon Prime Video), have achieved it; Kevin Costner, who earns 1.3 million per episode of the series Yellowstone (SkyShowtime); the same ones that Mahershala Ali enters per chapter of The plot (Hulu); and Elisabeth Moss, who pocketed 1.1 million for Las luminosas (Apple TV), according to the ranking prepared by Variety.
These amounts are far exceeded by actor John Krasinski, who earns about two million dollars per episode of the Jack Ryan series (Amazon prime video), since in addition to being the protagonist he is an executive producer of the series.
Other well-known faces that are collecting that salary in television series of the moment are Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren for 1923 (SkyShowtime); Michael Keaton for Dopesick (Disney); Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd for The shrink next door (Apple TV); Jason Sudeikis for Ted Lasso (Apple TV) and Silvester Stallone for Tulsa King (SkyShowtime).
A step below that are performers like Elizabeth Olsen (Love and Death), with a salary of $875,000, and Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto (WeCrashed) and Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry), with salaries of $750,000.
Thanks to the agreement reached with HBO, the former Disney girl, who began her career in the Shake it up series, becomes the series' highest-paid actress, ahead of peers such as Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud and Alexa Demie. And she thus climbs to the podium of the actresses who earn the most on television.
The number one spot is held by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who earn $2 million per episode of The Morning Show (Apple TV).
In just three years, Zendaya would have tripled her capital thanks to her participation in Euphoria, which since it premiered in 2019 has received nearly 40 awards, including nine Emmy awards in total. In this third installment, Tom Holland's girlfriend plans to also get behind the camera and direct an episode. In an interview with Vogue Italia, the artist said that she was about to direct episode 6 of season 2, but she did not have enough time to prepare, because she had to concentrate on acting.
