{"id":18613,"date":"2025-06-27T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18613\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:41:13","slug":"sam-rockwell-gets-paid-for-lean-on-me-despite-not-being-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18613\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rockwell Gets Paid For ‘Lean On Me’ Despite Not Being In Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOf his many memorable performances, Sam Rockwell<\/a> is apparently still getting paid for one that never happened.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar winner recently recalled when he, Michael Imperioli<\/a> and Kevin Corrigan \u201cdrove in a van to New Jersey to audition for one line in Lean on Me<\/a>\u201d early in their careers, as well as how he still gets paid despite not appearing in the 1989 film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd then I got it,\u201d said Rockwell on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast. \u201cAnd then, they never got to my scene, so they had to let me go because they didn\u2019t want to pay me for a week. So, they gotta pay you for a day player or pay you for a week. So, they let me go. They didn\u2019t fire me, they just sort of let me go because they were like, \u2018We can\u2019t pay him a week for one line.\u2019 And then Michael got it. <\/p>\n

\n\tRockwell added, \u201cAnd I still get residual checks for that, even though I\u2019m not in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCredited in the film as \u2018George\u2019, Imperioli\u2019s line was ultimately cut as well, but his \u201cfirst experience on a movie\u201d still made an impression after working with director John G. Avildsen on the biographical drama.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was very impatient,\u201d Rockwell\u2019s fellow White Lotus alum Imperioli told The New Yorker<\/a> last year. \u201cHe was not very nice, to be honest. I think he was overwhelmed because there were, like, a thousand high-school kids in this. He made me audition in the cafeteria during the lunch break with, like, hundreds of kids. It was horrible. I had one line.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Michael Schiffer, Lean On Me stars Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, an inner-city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, tasked with turning around the school\u2019s test scores to keep it from being placed into receivership of the state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of his many memorable performances, Sam Rockwell is apparently still getting paid for one that never happened. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,17676,53,17677,17678,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-18613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lean-on-me","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-residuals","12":"tag-sam-rockwell","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754440619903441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}