Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was paid just $3 – that’s £2.36 – to direct an R-rated movie back in 2003.
The star, who directed the first of the Twilight Saga movies, didn’t make a huge amount of cash for the movie about a 13-year-old girl.
That film was Thirteen, starring Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed.
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Catherine admitted to Yahoo! Entertainment: “I mean, every studio and every financier said, ‘No, we can’t make it. How could we make a movie that’s gonna be R-rated with an unknown 13-year-old girl in the lead?’ Everybody said no.”
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“We made it by hook or crook, you know? And for no money.”
She admitted: “I got paid three bucks the whole time. But when we finally made it, people were like, ‘Oh, it’s powerful. It’s moving’.”
She confessed that the stars’ performances were “so strong” because they “put their hearts into it” – and the film remains Catherine’s “little baby” to this day, despite her meagre earnings.
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The movie was produced with a budget of just $2million, relying on independent equity financing, and took only 24 days to shoot. In the end, the movie grossed just over $10million worldwide.
By comparison, Twilight made earnings of more than $408million, with Catherine sporting a net worth of around $8million, according to Idol Net Worth.
Thirteen debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2003, and follows teenage honours student Tracy, whose relationship with her mum becomes strained after befriending two popular girls at school.
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Things soon descend into a mess of sex, drugs and rebellion for the teens.
The film has since blown up on TikTok, with “1.6billion interactions” with clips, which Catherine insists makes the flick relevant even in the 2020s.
The star confessed that she even wants a spin-off TV series based on the film, confessing: “We really wanna do a TV series where we see other 13-year-old girls: Thirteen Afghanistan, Thirteen Detroit. You know, let’s see how other 13-year-old girls are navigating their transition into adulthood.”
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