Dylan Sprouse Says Suite Life Residual Check Was Five Cents

Dylan Sprouse said the only residual check he has received for The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was five cents, for an episode that crossed over with Hannah Montana. He described the payment during an appearance on Wildmen, the podcast he hosts with Brendan Columbus, with former castmate Phil Lewis as a guest. Sprouse said he had not received another residual check for the Disney Channel series. Residuals are payments actors may receive when work is reused beyond its original release. His account of the five-cent payment was not accompanied by payment records, and Disney did not respond to requests for comment reported in coverage of the discussion. Lewis, who played hotel manager Mr. Moseby, also described the cast’s contract terms. He said episodes filmed within a calendar year could be counted as one season, regardless of how many were made, so the production would not have to pay cast members pay increases between seasons. The comments concerned the actors’ account of their contracts; the terms were not independently documented in the discussion. Sprouse said the series had been extremely popular, but described the cast as underfunded. He recalled that it had at one point...