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Reza Farrakhan Dropped a surprising bombshell sunset king Actors get a raise.
“The last thing they want is for actors to know their worth. They want to keep you in the dark and shower you with praise so you don’t ask for more money,” Reza, 52, recalls in his new book. Memoirs of a Gay Shah: My Story of Family, Fame and Becoming a Kingreleased on Tuesday, April 7. “There’s no gold statue moment. It’s a constant game of trying to control you no matter how popular you become.”
Reza, who Appeared on the show from 2012 to 2021recalls “investing” his own money to market himself and his lifestyle. He specifically recalled “buying Louboutins” to protect his image, and that his check allegedly did not “cover the price of the shoes.”
“Everything that was being produced at the time was terrible, and I felt like that paltry check would probably eat up a lot of the budget,” he continued. “In Season 1, I shot my confessional interview in a storage room. I’m not kidding. The photographer was doing my makeup for God’s sake. We didn’t have a legitimate makeup artist. She bought some makeup and took it with her. She would put it on for us before the shoot.”
The cast of Sunset Kings has been busy since the series ended. The show, which premiered on Bravo in 2012, tells the story of a group of Persian-Americans living in Beverly Hills as they balance their careers and social lives with family and cultural traditions. “Lords of Sunset” stars Reza Farahan, Golnesa Gharachedaghi, Sammy Younai, Asa Soltan Rahmati, (…)
sunset king Already following A group of Iranian-Americans living in Beverly Hills try to juggle a social life and a promising career while balancing the demands of family and tradition.
Reza recalled that the cast came together to negotiate a raise when the offer for season three was “paltry.”
“I’m not going to lie. Four figures per episode,” he wrote. “Eventually, it all worked out. We agreed to a most-favored-nation contract and our pay per episode increased six to seven times what we were doing before. Our pay per episode went from four figures to five figures this season. So it was a nice bump up.”
If you’re lucky, with the big drama comes some big paychecks on the Real Housewives franchise. Ever since The Real Housewives of Orange County premiered in March 2006, fans have been curious about how much their favorite cast members from different cities make year after year. “We never really talked about contracts and money,” (…)
Elsewhere in his memoir, Reza detailed tensions between cast members based on who “did more press” about the show, revealing that he pretended to be an anonymous producer early on, mocking them and trolling the cast toward the end of the show.
sunset kingThe ending paves the way for For Reza, Gornessa “GG” Gara Chedaghi and Mercedes “MJ” Javid Finally joining the Bravo reboot: Valley: Persian style.
Memoirs of a Gay Shah: My Story of Family, Fame and Becoming a King It’s now available.
