Chris Pine realizes how far he’s come.
Pine, 43, is Willie Geist’s visitor for his Sunday Sitdown on the Sunday, Could 5, episode of Immediately, and a preview clip reveals the actor speaking about his first main position as Nicholas Deveraux in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. He informed Geist that the position paid him simply $65,000, however it felt like a lot extra.
“It was the peak of summer time and I used to be getting off at Magnolia. I used to be on my little Verizon tiny little flip cellphone, my silver one, and I bought a name from my brokers that I booked the job,” he mentioned. “I pulled over onto the facet of the freeway and so they mentioned, ‘You’re getting paid $65,000.’ And it was like they’d simply informed me I’d made $50 million. It was completely earth-shattering.”
The 2004 movie wasn’t Pine’s first appearing job, however it kick-started his profession simply out of faculty. Within the sequel to Anne Hathaway’s 2001 film The Princess Diaries, Pine performs certainly one of Hathaway’s suitors.
“I bought that $65,000 and I simply bear in mind distinctly realizing in that second that my life had modified one way or the other, despite the fact that $60,000 on the finish of the day turned out to be about $15,000,” he mentioned.
And like it’s for most individuals, that first paycheck didn’t final Pine lengthy. He says he owed his mother and father lease cash on the time and was already overdrawn by $400 on his checking account.
“That may be a wild feeling. I’ll always remember that,” he concluded.
Issues have most likely gotten simpler for Pine over the previous 20 years. He has since appeared as Captain Kirk in three Star Trek motion pictures and as Steve Trevor in a pair of Surprise Lady movies, amongst dozens of different movie and TV credit. Regardless of all that success, Pine mentioned he could be open to reprising his position as Nicholas.
Does the tiara nonetheless match? Following two profitable Princess Diaries movies, devoted followers have been clamoring for extra. “There is a script for the third film. There’s a script,” Anne Hathaway, who performed Princess Mia Thermopolis within the 2001 flick, revealed throughout a January 2019 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen. “I need to do it. Julie [Andrews] desires […]
“Yeah, I’m right here! I’m right here for it,” he informed Leisure Tonight amid studies of a possible third film. “Give me a cellphone name or an electronic mail.”
A 3rd movie has not been formally introduced, however Pine and Hathaway’s costar Julie Andrews mentioned she’d be prepared to return to her position as nicely, cautioning that she didn’t anticipate it to occur.
“It’s fairly a very long time now for the reason that two Diaries had been performed, and I’m unsure, however generally it’s greatest to depart an excellent factor alone,” Andrews, 88, informed Immediately.
Geist’s full interview with Pine will air Sunday morning on NBC.