The Highest-Paid Movie Actor Of The Last Decade Revealed

It might seem as though in order to be named the highest paid movie actor of the last decade, one would have had to star in a good number of huge Hollywood hits. But with only a handful of roles over the last ten years, it comes as something of a surprise that Will Smith has been crowned the king of Hollywood paychecks.

The actor didn't totally dominate pop culture in the 2010s like he had in the 1990s with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the Bad Boys franchise, or in the 2000s with high-profile appearances in everything from romantic comedies to post-apocalyptic actioners to Oscar-nominated dramas. Instead, the 2010s saw Smith taking quite a few dramatic roles, in films like Focus, Concussion, Collateral Beauty, and Gemini Man. He also turned out appearances in two critical failures: as Floyd Lawton, a.k.a. Deadshot, in the much-maligned Suicide Squad, and as Daryl Ward in Bright, another David Ayer-directed venture. Smith's final film role of the 2010s was different from all the aforementioned others: he voiced Lance Sterling, "the world's most awesome spy," in the 20th Century Fox animated flick Spies in Disguise opposite Spider-Man star Tom Holland.

Though Smith hasn't exactly had a stellar critical record for this decade of film releases, there has been one shining star: Men in Black 3. It's been a long while now, but Men in Black 3 was released in this decade, in 2012, to be exact, and it earned Smith an incredible $100 million paycheck. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smith walked away with that stack of cash from the film's box office take-home. In 2019 cash, $100 million is nearly $112 million, further solidifying Smith as the top-earner of the decade.

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