Freddie Prinze Jr. voiced Kanan Jarrus in four seasons of Star Wars: Rebels, as well as reprising his role in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker and the opening episode of The Bad Batch in 2021, and he recently revealed that the limited pay almost made him quit the show.
“In the world of animation, these animation actors, the voice actors, as people call them – again, they’re just actors, they’re just not doing live-action stuff – the paychecks are whack. When I did Star Wars Rebels, they weren’t paying any of us a dime. When I said, ‘I’m gonna walk unless you give not only me but the rest of the cast a raise’ – and I made sure we all got paid the same – that was the biggest, like, I can’t say that’s the biggest check any of them ever got on a show, but it was the biggest check that Disney ever paid voice actors per episode.”
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