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In 2008, no studio would insure Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man because of his post-rehab record, so Marvel wrote him a base salary of $500,000 and a backend cut of the gross. E…

Sean Connery was offered Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: $10 million plus 15% of worldwide gross across all three films. He passed because he "never understood it." The trilo…