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The ‘Friends’ reunion paid the six actors as much as $5 million apiece. But that’s a fraction of how much they earned over 27 years.
Twenty-seven years after the sitcom debuted, its stars – and creators – are far from broke.
The much anticipated Friends Reunion, which aired Thursday on HBO Max, paid Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Chandler, Joey and Ross up to $5 million apiece, according to one knowledgeable source. Not bad for one night’s work, but a pittance compared with what they have made across the sitcom’s nearly three-decade long run.
The wildly popular television comedy generated nearly $1.4 billion in earnings since Friends’ broadcast debut in 1994, according to Forbes estimates. Of that, Forbes estimates that the six Friends stars received nearly $816 million in pre-tax earnings, or roughly $136 million each.
Read the full profile on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnchmielewski/2021/05/28/how-friends-generated-more-than-14-billion-for-its-stars-and-creators/?sh=6e24c9dd3db7
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