Teri Hatcher Cleans up Computer Game
Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives is reportedly getting over a million dollars for her voice over work for the TV show’s video game!
That’s insane:
A YEAR ago she was still describing herself as a “former has-been”. Now Teri Hatcher, lead actor in the blockbuster Desperate Housewives, is set to become the highest-paid female actor on US TV.
Hatcher, 41, has been offered a record $US1 million ($1.38 million) bonus for a week’s work lending her voice to a video game based on the murderous mystery and sexual mayhem in the fictional Wisteria Lane.
She is already paid $US315,000 an episode for the comedy drama and next month publishes Burnt Toast, a memoir of unemployment as a single mother, predicted to top the booksellers’ charts and take her expected earnings this year to more than $US8.7 million.
When Desperate Housewives was launched in 2004, its female co-stars all earned the same salaries. It was recently revealed, however, that Hatcher, who plays the accident-prone single mother Susan Mayer, earns a $US35,000 “premium” per episode on top of her regular $US280,000 salary.
Her co-stars include Nicollette Sheridan, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and the Oscar-nominated Felicity Huffman. However, Hatcher’s character is regarded as the most sympathetic in Wisteria Lane, making her potentially one of the most lucrative stars to have emerged on the US small screen for several years.
Recent revelations about the divorcee’s private life, when she spoke out about being sexually abused by her uncle as a child, and years of unemployment when she battled bouts of depression and loneliness, have only increased her popularity.
Her bumper earnings, she has said, will “let me enjoy what is happening now to the fullest and make me smart about securing a future for me and my family for the time, maybe two or five years away, when I am not hot again”.
In the video game, the players, starting as amnesiacs seeking their own identity, will interact with the characters, voiced by the show’s actresses. It is aimed squarely at women, who are now following young men away from television towards games on everything from computers to mobile telephones.
Besides the games, Hatcher also stands to profit from a forthcoming bonanza of other merchandising from the show, which already includes a board game and telephone ring tones. via The Australian
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Cingular ringtones.
Apr 9, 2007 at 2:19 am
Ringtones….
Free ringtones. Ringtones….
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