Why do actors get paid tens of millions for their movies instead of a normal salary?

Question

Why do actors get paid tens of millions for their movies instead of a normal salary?

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Answer 1

If you did something for your boss that made your boss hundreds of millions of dollars, would you not think it fair to get paid some reasonably large share of that money, or would you be happy with a normal salary?

A huge part of why people collectively pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to go see a movie in the theaters is because of the actors in the movie. The actors want a share of the money their work helped to make.