The Fantastic Four: First Steps Star Paul Walter Hauser Reveals His Marvel Paycheck — And How Much He Actually Got After Taxes

Paul Walter Hauser has discussed however overmuch wealth helium made from appearing arsenic Mole Man successful Marvel movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps — and however overmuch of his paycheck helium really saw aft taxes and different deductions.

Hollywood stars seldom sermon their salaries, but Hauser decided to acceptable the grounds consecutive successful a speech with Vulture, explaining wherefore helium has taken connected truthful galore projects implicit the people of his career.

Since 2018, Hauser has averaged astir 3 movies a twelvemonth portion besides appearing successful galore TV bid specified arsenic Cobra Kai and performing arsenic a nonrecreational wrestler. But wherefore is helium specified a workaholic? Hauser says helium simply needs to enactment successful bid to get paid.

"For thing similar Fantastic Four, you marque 2 oregon 3 100 1000 bucks to play Mole Man," Hauser revealed, earlier explaining that this magnitude was not what helium really ended up seeing successful his slope account.

"Then [there's] taxes, cause 10%, manager 10%, lawyer 10%, I springiness 5% to a concern manager, and past I grew up successful the religion truthful I'm ever tithing something... I'll springiness distant immoderate wealth to idiosyncratic who needs it. At the extremity of the day, what looked similar $250k is simply a batch person to $136,000.

"That's inactive a batch of wealth by anyone's metric," Hauser continued, "but it's not going to acceptable you up for life."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hauser besides suggested his co-starring relation successful The Fantastic Four was 1 of the larger paychecks he'd received during his career, further explaining wherefore helium took connected truthful galore projects.

"There's a crushed I bash a s*** ton of movies and it's due to the fact that I person to support doing them," Hauser concluded, "as I'm not getting paid connected a Springsteen oregon a Fantastic Four what I'm getting paid connected The Luckiest Man successful America oregon Balls Up." Here, Hauser is referencing his co-starring relation successful the Jeremy Allen White-fronted Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, arsenic good arsenic 2 projects made connected smaller budgets.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps features Hauser successful respective scenes, though his quality arsenic Mole Man was the taxable of notable cuts arsenic Marvel heavy massaged the movie during post-production (a process that besides saw John Malkovich's villain Red Ghost removed completely).

While there's nary connection yet connected whether The Fantastic Four volition get a standalone sequel, Hauser has plentifulness of different projects going on. The histrion volition adjacent look successful Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie reboot, and volition look arsenic the proprietor of Scooby-Doo successful Netflix's upcoming live-action TV series.

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