Stephen Amell Earned Less Than His Co-Stars as Arrow’s Leading Man
Stephen Amell tells it like it is.
The 37-year-old-actor was a guest on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast Tuesday, where he spoke candidly about what it's like to be the lead of The CW's smash Arrow; Amell was cast as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, a billionaire playboy turned masked vigilante, in 2011.
Arrow was Amell's first leading role, and at the time, "I didn't really care what the deal was," he said.
"It was a fair deal.
I had no quote.
I had never been a series regular before; I was a series regular on Hung, technically, but I wasn't going to be bumped up to a series regular price until the fourth season—if there was a fourth season, which there wasn't.
It...