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Originally Posted by RetroGunslinger
Believe it or not, it's not the actor who benefits most from the movie. Sure, they get a little more on top of their salary if the movie does well, and they might get more parts, but that really doesn't help those other working people whose livelihoods rest on the success of the film.
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I have to contend this - I don't think anyone whose name you haven't heard of would say that their livelihood rests on the success of the films they work on. They get paid (as do EVERYONE working on a film) whether the movie does well or not. And surely no minor technician or extra was ever blamed for a poorly performing movie.
For me, an actor's behaviour in real life doesn't affect how I receive their film's. Like someone already said, Tom Cruise tries his best to be a dick these days but the Cruise I know doesn't exist, it's an amalgamation of twenty years worth of appealing (if not always likeable) screen characters from Risky Business to Lions for Lambs.