Chris Pine realizes how much he’s come.
Pine, 43, is Willie Geist’s visitor for his Sunday Sitdown on the Sunday, Could 5, episode of Now, and a preview clip demonstrates the actor chatting about his 1st significant part as Nicholas Deveraux in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. He instructed Geist that the role paid out him just $65,000, but it felt like so significantly extra.
“It was the peak of summer time and I was finding off at Magnolia. I was on my little Verizon small very little flip phone, my silver just one, and I acquired a contact from my agents that I booked the career,” he said. “I pulled more than on to the side of the freeway and they said, ‘You’re finding paid out $65,000.’ And it was like they had just told me I’d created $50 million. It was totally earth-shattering.”
The 2004 movie was not Pine’s very first acting occupation, but it kick-started his job just out of college or university. In the sequel to Anne Hathaway’s 2001 film The Princess Diaries, Pine plays 1 of Hathaway’s suitors.
“I got that $65,000 and I just bear in mind distinctly figuring out in that instant that my everyday living experienced improved in some way, even nevertheless $60,000 at the finish of the day turned out to be about $15,000,” he explained.
And like it is for most individuals, that first paycheck didn’t last Pine extended. He claims he owed his parents rent revenue at the time and was presently overdrawn by $400 on his bank account.
“That is a wild feeling. I’ll never overlook that,” he concluded.
Points have in all probability gotten simpler for Pine above the earlier 20 many years. He has considering that appeared as Captain Kirk in three Star Trek flicks and as Steve Trevor in a pair of Question Woman movies, among dozens of other movie and Television credits. Despite all that good results, Pine explained he would be open up to reprising his part as Nicholas.
“Yeah, I’m right here! I’m listed here for it,” he instructed Leisure Tonight amid reviews of a prospective 3rd movie. “Give me a cellphone contact or an e-mail.”
A third film has not been formally introduced, but Pine and Hathaway’s costar Julie Andrews reported she’d be prepared to return to her part as properly, cautioning that she did not be expecting it to occur.
“It’s rather a extensive time now due to the fact the two Diaries have been carried out, and I’m not confident, but often it is ideal to go away a good matter by itself,” Andrews, 88, explained to Right now.
Geist’s whole job interview with Pine will air Sunday morning on NBC.
