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TIL Alec Guinness negotiated an upfront salary of $300,000 and 2.25% of the backend grosses to appear as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977). Overall, the deal earned him an estimated $95 million, for roughly 20 minutes of screen time, by the time of his death in 2000 at 86.

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