Posted 4 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down31 Actors Who Were Paid A TON Despite Doing - Fine, I'm Gonna Say It - Basically No WorkThanks to pay-or-play deals, some actors made millions without a single day's work.by Hannah MarderBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. In what might be the most egregious example on this list, Ving Rhames reportedly made $7.7 million to appear in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol for ~39 seconds. It was basically a cameo, coming around two hours into the film; Rhames was on set for two days. Paramount Pictures 2.