Miles Teller Gifts Keleigh Teller Remade Wedding Dress After L.A. Wildfires
Miles Teller just got a spectacular payday.
As an investor in The Long Drink Company, the Whiplash star is expected to take home a chunk of change after the beverage brand was sold to the maker of White Claw, The Mark Anthony Group of Companies, in a reported $325 million deal.
“Iāve been feeling very proud,” the 39-year-old told The Hollywood ReporterĀ in an interview published April 17. “Iāve been involved in this company for over seven years. It was something that I really believed in and we came up with great ways for me to advocate [for].”
Though THR reportedĀ that Miles held a “minority stake” in the Finnish cocktail business, Forbes reported in 2024 that he had “carved out a larger ownership stake” in The Long Drink Company, which also counted Jay-Z‘s Marcy Venture Partners as an investor.
So, how much of the multimillion-dollar payout does Miles get to take home?
āI donāt really talk numbers,ā he told THR. āI was always taught thatās not in good taste.”
However, he did playfully note that the amount is not enough to leave Hollywood. As Miles put it, “All Iāll say is that Iām not retiring from acting anytime soon.ā
In fact,Ā the Top Gun: Maverick star admitted that the paycheck may influence his future projectsāspecifically, producing or funding films about “underdog stories.”
“This gives me a lot of confidence to trust my instincts,” he said. “Iāve been producing for the last several years. Certain actors can get movies made on different budgets. If you can say, ‘Hey Iām attached to this thing, let me find a director and what actors do we like for this, do I have relationships with them?’ So, it certainly helps.”
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It’s not just Miles who is keeping tight-lipped on his finances. His wife Keleigh Sperry Teller seems to have the same philosophy, as she recently clapped back on a news report claiming the coupleāwho got married in 2019āspent $17.8 million on a new Pacific Palisades mansion after theirs burned down in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.Ā
Commenting on a TikTok of the rumorĀ April 14, Keleigh wrote, “How did you get this info…”
The pair lost everything in the devastating fires, including Keleighās wedding dress from her 2019 nuptials with the Divergent alum. Fortunately, their Hollywood friends had been helping them recover.
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“Many people have reached out, just either letting us know that they’re there emotionally or people are offering us their place,” heĀ told E! NewsĀ in February 2025. “I’m a Deadhead, and so I’ve had a lot of people reach out to Keleigh like, ‘I want to send Miles a Grateful Dead shirt.'”
And for Christmas last year, he was able to surprise her with aĀ replica of her Monique Lhuillier wedding dress.Ā
āMiles had my wedding dress that burned in the fire remade,” Keleigh shared at the time. “So happy.”
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To see which celebrities have been more open about their paychecks, read on.
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Joe Giudice
To hearĀ Joe Giudice tell it, his and ex-wife Teresa Giudice‘s salary for season one of The Real Housewives of New Jersey was nothing to flip over. “We got paid nothing the first season,” he detailed on daughter Gia Giudice‘sĀ Casual Chaos podcast in August 2025. “I’ll even say, it was like $25,000. It was ridiculous. But, whatever.”
And the ingredientses they put into that initial fame-making season weren’t cheap. “I think the first year we had that big party in my great room,” the father of four reflected. “I think that show cost me $150,000 the first year.”
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Jenna Johnson
While there’s no cash prize for nabbing Dancing With the Stars‘ mirrorball trophy, āwhoever makes it to the finale, you all get paid up until then,” Jenna Johnson, who won season 33 with partner Joey Graziadei, shared. “And you do get a nice bonus.ā
“If you win,” Johnson, who noted pro contracts are dependent on seniority, continued. “itās not like you get a million dollars. Youāre just getting a cute trophy together.ā As for those who say farewell to the ballroom early, well, as she explained, “Youāre guaranteed until a certain amount of weeks.āĀ
According to multiple reports, dancer salaries start at around $1,200 to $1,600 an episode, which can increase to up to of $100,000 per season. (ABC has not confirmed these reports.) On the flip side, celebrities receive a starting salary of $125,000. As they cha-cha further into the competition, starsĀ receive additional bonuses with the semifinalists and finalists getting paid up to $50,000 extra.
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Jennifer Lawrence
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence was paid $25 million to star in Adam McKayās ensemble disaster comedy Donāt Look Up. But her costar and fellow Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio got $30 million.
āLook, Leo brings in more box office than I do,ā Lawrence told Vanity Fair for itsā December 2020/January 2021 issue. āIām extremely fortunate and happy with my deal. But in other situations, what I have seenāand Iām sure other women in the workforce have seen as wellāis that itās extremely uncomfortable to inquire about equal pay. And if you do question something that appears unequal, youāre told itās not gender disparity but they canāt tell you what exactly it is.ā
Her sanguine attitude was hard-fought: When the disparity between Lawrenceās compensation and that of her male costars for 2013ās American Hustle was revealed in the 2014 Sony email hack, it prompted an industry-wide conversation about the gender pay gap in Hollywood.
“I’m so fortunate to have my job. My problem is not money,” Lawrence told the U.K.ās Channel 4 News in 2017. “I wasn’t upset that I only got this many millions for a movie. That’s ridiculous. I was angry about the unfairness and inequality.”
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Jonah Hill
Less comparable to DiCaprioās salary: The $60,000 ābefore commissions and taxesā that Jonah Hill was paid for 2013ās The Wolf of Wall Street, while the titular wolf made $10 million.
āThey gave me the lowest amount of money possible,ā Hill recalled on The Howard Stern Show in 2014. But it was the chance to appear in a Martin Scorsese movie, so the Moneyball alum wanted to get the deal done before anyone could change their mind.
āI would sell my house and give him all my money to work for [Scorsese],ā explained Hill, who earned his second Best Supporting Actor nomination for his turn as a squirrelly substance-abusing stockbroker. āThis isn’t what you make money for. You doĀ 22 Jump StreetĀ or you do other things, and you can pay your rent. I would have done anything in the world. I would do it again in a second. This isn’t about money. You should do things that you care about.”
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey happily accepted only a little bit of green to star in 1985ās The Color Purple.
āThey were only offering $35,000 to be in this film, and it is the best $35,000 I ever earned,ā the billionaire media mogul told Essence in 2023. āIt changed everything and taught me so much.ā
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Jennifer Lopez
When she scored the role of late Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla in the 1997 biopic Selena, Jennifer Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn $1 million for a film.
āI was too young and didnāt know what the hell was going on,ā Lopez told Variety in 2019, reflecting on her breakout movie. āIt was great they offered me a million dollars. I feel like everyone was making a statement.ā
And it paved the way for her to make hundreds of millions more, though sometimes her participation doesnāt cost a thing.
āI do things because I love them,ā Lopez explained to GQ in 2019. āI didn’t get paid a whole bunch of money forĀ Hustlers. I did it for free and produced it. I bank on myself, you know? LikeĀ Jenny From the BlockāI do what I love.”
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Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody didnāt do The Brutalist for the money. Rather, he took on the role of a Hungarian architect suffering for his art in post-WWII America for $250,000 and won his second Oscar for Best Actor.
āI need a studio movie now, because Iāve poured it all into this,ā Brody quipped to Variety, referring to the ābarn that looks like a castleā heās renovating in upstate New York.
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Pete Davidson
āDo you guys know what they pay us?ā Pete Davidson cracked to New York magazine when asked ahead of Saturday Night Live‘sĀ 50th anniversary special how he spent his money when he was first hired at the age of 20 in 2014. āItās like three grand an episode, so I think I got dinner.ā
Interestingly, the salaries have remained proportional for SNL newcomers, with season one stars John Belushi,Ā Jane Curtin,Ā Gilda Radner,Ā Dan AykroydĀ andĀ Chevy Chase reportedly earning $750 an episode back in 1975. Which was roughly equivalent to $3,300 in 2014, according to the Consumer Price Index Inflation calculator. (Though the $750 of 1975 is $4,428 in 2025.)
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Kenan Thompson
While Kenan Thompson makes a lot more than $3,000 per episode of SNL now that heās in his record 22nd season, the former Nickelodeon star had to start somewhere.
āThat first commercial when they paid me, it was $800,ā the All That alum revealed inĀ Demi Lovatoās 2024 documentaryĀ Child Star. āI was 12 so that may as well have been a million dollars.”
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Lauren Graham
It turns out Gilmore Girlsā status as a beloved rewatchable classic is literally priceless.
āThere really are no residuals on Netflix,ā Lauren Graham, who played Lorelai Gilmore for seven seasons and then reprised the role for 2016ās Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March 2025. āBut Iāve been paid in love and appreciation.ā
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Tommy Dorfman
Feeling not so appreciated, Tommy Dorfman got specific about her 13 Reasons Why paycheck during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikeāwhich was prompted in part (as was the WGA strike) by streamers like Netflix not making it a practice to pay additional compensation to cast and crew once a show had become a big hit.
“my earnings for the entire first season ofĀ 13 reasons whyĀ were $29,953.24 prior to agency and manager fees (20%) and taxes,” Dorfman wrote onĀ ThreadsĀ July 24. “8 episodes over six months.” She continued, āi did all of the promo and had KEY ART for this show, flew round trip from NYC to SF to shoot for every episode, was kept for days without pay/working. i barely qualified for insurance.”
And, Dorfman added, āwithin the first 28 days of release, the show’s season 1 garnered a total of 476 million view hours. this is why we strike.”
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Dax Shepard
Without naming names or numbers, Dax Shepard told fellow Parenthood alum Lauren Graham when she appeared on his podcast that he knew he made āamong the lowest of all the actorsā on their NBC drama, which ran for six seasons.
But, the Armchair Expert host stressed that he did not mind.
āEvery job I had ever had in my life prior toĀ Parenthood, I made a point to find out what everyone was making,ā he said. āI’d always figure it outāeither a conversation where I get it out of them or I backchannel through an agent.”
So he made a point to purposely not seek out such info about his Parenthood family, which helped with enjoying the experience even when he did get an inkling of where he was on the pay pyramid.
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George Clooney
āI got a dollar for writing the script,ā George Clooney told the Los Angeles Times in 2005 about the financial strings he pulled to get his film Good Night, and Good Luck made. āI had to endorse my check for directing and turn in my acting salary. [Actor, cowriter and coproducer Grant Heslov] and I each made a buck for doing it.ā
His labor of love about CBS News journalist Edward R. Murrow speaking truth to power in the 1950s had legs, though: Making his Broadway debut, Clooney wrapped his months-long stint playing Murrow in a stage adaptation of the filmĀ in June 2025. And with the play having grossed a Broadway record (for a nonmusical) $3.3 million during a preview week before it officially opened April 3, he made a lot more than $1.
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Christian Bale
For his chilling turn as Patrick Bateman in 2000ās American Psycho, Christian Bale was paid āthe absolute minimum they were legally allowed to pay meā because no one in the production really wanted to hire him except director Mary Harron, the Welsh actor told GQ in 2022.
He made so little, Bale shared, that he remembered āsitting in the makeup trailer and the makeup artists were laughing at me because I was getting paid less than any of them.ā
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Jon Heder
His uncle may have been Rico, but Jon Heder confirmed in 2010 that he was āinitiallyā only paid $1,000 for Napoleon Dynamite.
After the irreverent comedy became a sleeper hit, he was able to renegotiate for a piece of the profits, telling the New Zealand Herald, āThey went a little bit higher.ā
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Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Hounsou said heās ādefinitely underpaidā in Hollywood despite his prestigious list of credits, including Amistad and Blood Diamond.
“I’ve been in this business and making films now over two decades,” the Beninese actor told CNNās Larry Madowo in January 2025. “And stillāwith two Oscar nominations and been in many big blockbuster filmsāand yet Iām still struggling financially to make a living.”
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Rebel Wilson
Rebel Wilson detailed in her 2024 memoir Rebel Rising that she was paid $3,500 to do Bridesmaids, āa fee that I then had to pay directly to the Screen Actors Guild to join the union. So really, I got paid nothing.ā
Still, she wrote, the experience was āeverything!ā
And the Australian actressā star rose ever a-ca higher, with her fee going from the SAG minimum scale of $65,000 for 2012ās Pitch Perfect to $10 million for 2017ās Pitch Perfect 3. Wilson wrote that she raked in $20 million total for the threequel, Isnāt It Romantic and The Hustle, thoughāreality alertāshe ālost almost 50 percent to taxes, 10 percent to agents and 5 percentā to her lawyer. But even after those obligations and paying her publicist, business manager and assistant, Wilson ānetted what to me was an absolute fortune.ā
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Ellen Pompeo
In late 2017, Ellen Pompeo negotiated a new Greyās Anatomy contract for $575,000 per episode, a seven-figure signing bonus and two full backend equity points worth an estimated $6 million to $7 million.
āIām 48 now, so Iāve finally gotten to the place where Iām OK asking for what I deserve, which is something that comes only with age,ā Pompeo told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. āBecause Iām not the most ārelevantā actress out there. I know thatās the industry perception because Iāve been this character for 14 years. But the truth is, anybody can be good on a show season one and two. Can you be good 14 years later? Now, thatās a f–kinā skill.ā
Reflecting more recently on how she always made less than costar Patrick Dempsey, even though she was the Grey in question, Pompeo said she didnāt begrudge him his money.
But, she said on a March 2025 episode of Call Her Daddy, āJust being that I was the namesake of the show, I deserved the same and that was harder to get. I wasn’t salty about him getting what he got. I was salty that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him and they never will.ā
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis recalled getting paid $2,000 a weekāso $8,000 in totalāfor 1978ās Halloween, her movie debut. āI mean,ā she told Rotten Tomatoes in 2018,Ā ānobody got paid, anything.ā
Yet while the scream queen earned four figures, director John Carpenterās friend Nick Castle felt like a king making $25 per day to share the role of Michael Myers. (Itās AnthonyĀ Moran whose face you see when the killerās mask comes off for a freaky second, and editor Tommy Lee Wallace also logged screentime as Michael.)
āThat was a lot at the time!ā Castle, who attended film school at USC with Carpenter, told Vanity Fair in 2018. āYou have to remember: My interest in doing the film was being on set, so I could demystify the experience of filmmaking and directing. I expected to hang around the set for no money. But hey, $25 per day, and all I had to do was wear a rubber mask.ā
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Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for 2008ās The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but years later she was still fired up by the $150,000 she accepted to be in the movieāafter producers rejected the $500,000 quote she brought to the table.
As for the filmās leads Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, āYou donāt hear a lot of $20 million quotes anymore, but at this time that was happening,ā Henson said on the Ladies First With Laura Brown podcast in 2021. āAnd rightfully soāIām not saying they shouldnāt have paid Cate and Brad what they deserved.ā
But, she continued, āIām bringing a certain amount to the seat too and I felt like what I was asking at that time in my career was fair, was fair to the ticket sales that I would contribute to this big film. Wouldnāt do it.ā Henson was āguttedā when they offered $100,000, she recalled. āWhen it was all said and done I got $150,000, but I had to swallow my pride, baby.ā
Breaking it down, āI know people go, ā$150,000, thatās a lot of money!āā Henson acknowledged. āI donāt ever want people to think that Iām ungrateful because that is not me.ā But, she calculated, āUncle Sam is going to take 50 percent of that, so now youāre left with, what? $75,000. Now before Uncle Sam takes the money, I have to pay my team before taxes, 30 percent. So once Uncle Sam takes his 75, then I got another 30 thatās coming off of that 75, so I may have made $40,000?ā
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Cate Blanchett
While Blanchett has made plenty of money over the years, it didnāt all come from playing royal elf Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings franchise, though it grossed $2.9 billion at the worldwide box office.
āAre you kidding me? No,ā she retorted on Watch What Happens Live in August 2024 when Andy Cohen guessed LOTR was her biggest paycheck. āNo one got paid anything to do that movieā¦I mean, I basically got free sandwiches, and I got to keep my ears.ā
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Orlando Bloom
They werenāt paid a precious amount, that is. Orlando Bloom, who played elven warrior Legolas, shared on The Howard Stern Show in 2023 that he made $175,000 for the whole trilogy.
Hopefully he also got to keep his ears.
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