The stars collect $2 million per episode.
Two stars who have rubbed shoulders with Donald Trump are among the highest-paid television actors, according to a new report from Variety.
According to the site’s listing, only four actors earn $2 million per episode. Two of the four are pro-MAGA: Sylvester Stallone, whom Trump named as one of his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood, and Chris Pratt, who has spoken favorably for Trump and publicly embraces the MAHA movement of RFK Jr., a member of his family. The other two stars taking home the golden amount are Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, each for their roles in the Apple TV series. The morning show.
Stallone earns his mega salary from the Paramount+ show, “Tulsa King.”
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Stallone earns his salary from the Paramount+ series King of Tulsawhich is currently airing its fourth season. Pratt’s $2 million came from The list of terminalsthe Prime Video series which dropped all eight episodes of its second season last month.
Chris Pratt stars in Amazon’s “The Terminal List.”
Although Pratt didn’t explicitly support Trump the way Stallone did when he called him the “second George Washington” in 2024, the Jurassic world The actor adopted his MAGA-adjacent persona after social media users discovered he followed several right-wing accounts on Instagram. He expressed his appreciation for his cousin-in-law Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA initiatives during an appearance on Bill Maher’s show. Random club in 2025, and criticized RFK Jr.’s critics as “unreasonable” about his “good policies.”
“I would hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success of his administration would be something that I would be allergic to,” Pratt said at the time, joking: “To say, ‘Oh, well, if they do it, I don’t want that to happen. I’ll put Clorox in my kids’ cereal myself.’… It’s like, come on, be reasonable here. There are some things that would be a nice thing to have.”
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He added: “When you jump on the bandwagon with the one who is, you know, the most controversial president of all time, it makes sense that you look terrible. » His post-election stance on “both sides” in 2024 also made some fans wonder if he was secretly MAGA.
Trump awarded Stallone the Kennedy Center Honor in December 2025 and called him “a very special guy, a real talent” and “a friend of mine.”
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon co-star in the Apple TV+ show, both playing news anchors.
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Witherspoon defended her and Aniston’s salaries after a critic highlighted their salaries in their review. She said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “There seemed to be resentment, like we weren’t worth it or it was awkward, and I asked myself, ‘Why is this awkward?’ » She added: “I guarantee you these companies are really smart, and if they are willing to pay us, they are doing it for a reason. »
Witherspoon said she didn’t understand why their salaries were “embarrassing.”
“They probably had a lot of lawyers and a lot of business people who decided on that number because they knew they would make more than that,” she continued, adding, “Do people mind when Kobe Bryant or LeBron James close their contract?”
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