Daniel Craig highest paid movie star on Variety list

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James Bond has wrestled out The Rock to become the world’s highest paid movie star.

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Daniel Craig’s Netflix streaming deals for the Knives Out sequels have netted him an estimated $100 million US, according to the new Variety list, twice as much as second placed Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, with Will Smith and Denzel Washington tied for third place with $40 million apiece.

Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts also tie for the highest-earning female actor, with $25 million each. That lands them spots in the top 10, behind Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg.

The new list drops as Craig reveals he isn’t planning to hand his fortune down to his children.

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The No Time to Die actor thinks inheritance is “distasteful” and is determined not to leave the millions he has earned as a Hollywood star to his two kids.

He tells Candis magazine: “Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed? I think (American industrialist) Andrew Carnegie gave away what in today’s money would be about $11 billion, which shows how rich he was because I’ll bet he kept some of it, too! But I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful.

“My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go.”

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