Hugh Jackman’s R-Rated Pay Cut

We may have correctly targeted some sellouts in recent times for their refusal to make movies that were cast out of an ‘R’ mould violent like they should be, but now a lesson comes from an unlikely source on how to handle these types of things.

Speaking at a screening of footage at Butt-Numb-a-thon this weekend, Mangold revealed to AICN’s Quint (via The Playlist that Jackman himself is the one who eased their apprehension – by taking a salary cut because he wanted to ensure he could do an R-rated movie.

So if Hugh Jackman could do it for a movie that could easily have gotten away with being PG-13 or even PG-13 in theaters and R on Blu-Ray… why did Sylvester Stallone (and to be fair, his co-stars) put up with a PG-13 Expendables 3?

Or that other thing… Terminator: Genisys, anyone?