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.
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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.”