PUBLIC OPINION > Kristen Stewart Is the Most Overpaid Actress
SodaHead Celebs
2012/06/21 16:00:00
Starring in the "Twilight" series has been both a blessing and a curse for Kristen Stewart. On the negative side, the series has plenty of critics and the paparazzi have been less than kind. On the positive side, she's friggin' loaded. In fact, at 22 years old she's the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. According to Forbes, she earned $34.5 million in the last year. We listed the seven highest-paid actresses and asked the public to pick the most overpaid.
Kristen Stewart
Just as you might expect, Kristen Stewart was voted the most overpaid actress by far. Not only is she the highest-paid, but the majority of her income is from "Twilight." The series sells, but a lot of people question Stephanie Meyer's achievements, as well as Stewart's acting ability. Her acting in the first movie was the butt of every joke for a while. To be fair, Jodie Foster thinks she's great...
Sarah Jessica Parker
Stewart was so far ahead of (behind?) the competition that the rest of the choices were all within 12% of each other. But with that in mind, Sarah Jessica Parker took second-place. This year, Parker's income came from poorly received romcoms, "I Don't Know How She Does It" and "New Year's Eve." Men were especially hostile toward her paycheck.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz was the first actress on this list that wasn't extremely predictable, and the first one who wasn't especially affected by any one demographic. There was a time Diaz might have received fewer votes, in the days of "Being John Malkovich," "Shrek," and "Vanilla Sky." But her most recent films -- "Bad Teacher" and "What to Expect When You're Expecting" -- are nothing to write home to.
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Top Opinion
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SavageS0ul 2012/06/21 20:38:45
+5Sarah Jessica Parker is the most overpaid in this list, hands down. Not that it matters much. I see this as light fun, but some ppl here are going to take this extremely serious. The question that I would find more crucial is, "What are they doing with their money?". Yea, it's their money, but I'm 1/2 afraid I would vomit & bash my own head in if I found out what any of them did with most of their money. >_<
Bella Swann was a flat character. There wasn't much she, as an actor, could do to improve it. And she was being paid to be the character, not to take it and run away with it. It's not like Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean, where he was given a fresh character and room to add his own (experienced) touch to it. Stewart was given a character that already had a flat canon depiction, and the movie dialogue was terrible.
Under the circumstances, I think Stewart did a pretty good job at acting. I'm an actress, and I would have probably done it similarly. There was just no wiggle room for her to put her own touch on the character. Bella was supposed to be clumsy, awkward, half-mute, dull, and give the appearance of being a slow-witted woman with a pretty face. There's not much good acting you can put in a character like that to begin with, in a movie.
Now that I've finished with that, I have to say that Twilight is the worst piece of crap I've read since... well, since ever. I've never read anything half as bad as this that was professionally published, and I can't say I've even read very many fanfictions that were on par with this level of atrocity. It's a bad story with bad directing and bad dialogue, so it's not a good place to judge an actor.
An author cannot please everyone, because it is in the human nature to criticise for one and two, not everyone likes a particular author's style of writing. Even if a writer only gets one fan, she's happy, because most novelists write because they feel that they have a wonderful idea that they would like to share with the world. If one person likes it, its great; if millions across the globe love it, then the author feels that they did a marvellous job. Those who don't like the story have the right not to. But just because they don't like it does not mean that the novel is not well written or is a boring story; it just is not their type of book.
Kristen is lucky to be earning what she's earning. I can promise that people wouldn't be complaining if they were the ones in her place, receiving the millions.
i love her sooo much.......
Actually, I think the studios would just figure out other ways to monetize films but right now they seem addicted to using violence and threats of violence - even though it's not working - which is why I say addicted.
But.....whatever. Not my struggle. Hooray for British instruction.
Teachers could make much more with the current level of taxation by simply cutting the massively bloated overhead of the salaries for district staffing and non-essential expenses like our current $1Mil+ solar panel addition to our local grade school.