The lives of Hollywood stars are not all games and fairy tales. Among them are celebrities who have had to face serious financial problems.
A more affluent family background can often help aspiring stars in the entertainment industry hit the ground running, as they come to Hollywood with a built-in financial safety net. But there are some celebritieswho literally see the American film capital as a Dream Factory: they want to make their dreams come true from scratch.
So for those who don’t have dad’s infinitely deep wallet at their disposal, they have to support themselves (or their dream project) in other ways. That’s why there are so many aspiring actors in Hollywood stores as waiters, salesmen, and the like. This is also a solution. As is borrowing – the following stars spoke candidly about the latter.
See which stars got into debt
Kevin Costner’s new Western, Horizon, will be premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, for which he himself obtained the budget by going into debt: he took out a huge loan for his ten-month estate. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Warner Bros.)
At the start of their careers, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon put all their savings into a joint bank account to help each other out until they hit it off. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for SXSW)
In 2013, George Clooney called together 14 of his closest friends and handed each of them a bag containing 1 million dollars (HUF 371.5 million). “Over the course of 35 years, these guys have helped me a lot. I slept on their couch when I had nothing. I borrowed from them when I was burned out. They helped me when I needed it,” the actor justified the generous gesture. (Photo by Neil P. Mockford/Getty Images)
When Will Smith moved to Los Angeles, he owed $10,000 to a friend who helped him out after Smith sold everything to pay his taxes. (Photo: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
Barbie star Issa Rae launched her career with the web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. However, in order to make this happen, he maxed out all his credit cards, which, like Will Smith, meant $10,000 in debt. During the first season of the series, the fans supported him with 50,000 dollars (18.5 million forints), so he was able to start the second season completely debt-free. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
“My mother loaned me money from the mortgage on our house,” said Margot Robbie, who always wanted to pay that amount back. In the end, he preferred to pay off the entire home loan as soon as he could. (Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
When Pedro Pascal arrived in New York in 2000, he had nothing and went to castings without success. So his old friend, Sarah Paulson, took a bite out of her modest salary so that Pedro could at least eat. (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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