Variety recently published an in-depth look at how much actors make for projects from streaming services. The article details the behind-the-scenes pressure for streaming services to cast big-name actors in their shows in order to recreate the major success of shows such as HBO's "Mare of Easttown" starring Kate Winslet. Thus, casting big-name actors means paying big salaries — and Pascal's salary for "The Last of Us" is amongst the notably high paychecks of streaming services' actors. According to Variety, Pascal is making a whopping $600K per episode of "The Last of Us." The first season contains ten episodes, which means that Pascal has taken home $6 million for his work on the show thus far.
Pascal's pay of $600K per episode is on par with that of the three stars of Showtime's "The First Lady" (Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson, and Michelle Pfeiffer), as well as Martin Short and Steve Martin of "Only Murders in the Building." Winslet made just a bit more for "Mare of Easttown" with $650K per episode, which is similar to what the stars of HBO's "And Just Like That..." (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon) made.
On the highest end of the spectrum, Jeff Bridges made $1 million per episode of FX's "The Old Man," and Chris Pratt made $1.4 million per episode of Amazon Prime's "The Terminal List."
