Freddie Prinze Jr. Reveals What Led To His Frustration When Requested To Take A Pay Minimize For ‘Scooby-Doo 2’ 

Again when Freddie Prinze Jr. starred within the “Scooby-Doo” movies, there was a time period when the beloved franchise left the actor feeling “so offended.”

In a current interview with Esquire, Prinze Jr.- who starred because the Thriller Inc. gang member Fred Jones within the 2002 Warner Bros. movie “Scooby-Doo” and 2004’s “Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed”- revealed he was requested to take a pay reduce regardless of the solid wanting a elevate for the sequel, which included his spouse, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who starred as Daphne.

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“I keep in mind considering, ‘Maintain up, who’s giving them the elevate? Me or y’all?’ Like we made you guys three-quarters of a billion {dollars}, you may’t afford to pay them what I’m making on this? Screw that,” the actor instructed the journal.

He additionally addressed allegations that the studio had, on the time, publicized his wage in {a magazine}.

“My ego was so offended,” he mentioned.

Within the years following the discharge of the second movie, Prinze Jr. started to develop a extra “correct perspective” on the favored initiatives, based mostly off the famed animated thriller collection “Scooby-Doo, The place Are You!” that launched 4 teenage detectives and their crew’s mascot- a speaking dog- to the world in 1969.

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“All these folks that had grown up loving these [“Scooby-Doo”] films began reaching out…after which I bought what I felt was a extra correct perspective on what that film meant to folks,” Prince Jr. defined, noting that it was as a result of he “was now not viewing it via the lenses of the studio.”