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Taylor took Sheridan [his] “Batting,” the TV guy told Howard Stern on Tuesday.
These “worst” beatings were also “the greatest gift I’ve ever been given,” says Sheridan, who at this point makes almost every TV show your dad watches. The story also happens to explain why he left the hit cable series at FX Sons of Anarchy After only two seasons.
It’s All Good: Sheridan has continued to make some hits (to varying degrees) of his own, e.g Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Landman, Lioness, Mayor of Kingstown, Madisonand Yellowstone Prequels 1883 and 1923. He would soon take his television talents to NBCUniversal, where Sheridan already had a movie deal.
But 15 years ago, when he was just an actor, Sheridan says he had a big hit on Kurt Sutter’s series, which cost about $10,000 per episode (for a 13-episode run).
“We’re not talking about an exorbitant amount of money, especially in Los Angeles,” Sheridan said.
“I’m literally going to leave the set of this show and go to my other job because I’m not making enough on this show to pay rent and live,” Sheridan told Stern on SiriusXM. “So after season two, I said [Sutter]- I said, “Guys, I’m not going to come back and do it again for that price. I’m just not doing it. I want what the other 14 people are doing.” [make]”.
Sheridan explained that he wasn’t asking for the same money as the show’s stars like lead actor Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, and Ron Perlman. The producers offered Sheridan $15,000 per episode, but with a 10-episode guarantee.
“I did the math on it and said, ‘This is not a pay raise,’” he recalls. What is this?” “I said: ‘No.’”
A “business affairs person,” supposedly working at FX, told Sheridan’s attorney that the actor could be recast “tomorrow,” according to the former writer/actor.
“There’s 50 of that guy,” Sheridan said the man told his attorney.
“I realized my value was that I was instantly replaceable and my job didn’t respect me,” Sheridan said. “So, I quit the show…and that’s when I decided I was going to write. I quit.”
“Oh my God, this is ridiculous,” Stern said. “Bravo.”
Watch the exchange here:
