![]() While details about Selena’s salary were missing from the report, it’s probably safe to assume that she was also earning a salary within a similar range alongside the seasoned actors. “As a female in my position, I was taken care of and I’ve only had lovely experiences, so I’m grateful for that.”Īccording to a 2021 report by Variety, Selena’s co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short both earned $600,000 per episode of Only Murders in the Building, a Hulu murder mystery series. ![]() “I have to say, I’m very lucky,” she shared. “It kind of shaped who I am in a way.” Later, Selena went into further detail about her working relationship with Disney while starring in Wizards of Waverly Place, noting that she was well taken care of during her tenure. “I’m beyond proud of the work that I did with Disney,” she shared. In an August 2021 interview with, Selena reflected on her Disney days with pride. She played magic-wielding teen Alex Russo on the series, a role which earned her an estimated $30,000 per episode, per Money Inc. Her real big break, however, came when she was cast on Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place. It wasn’t long after until Selena continued landing roles on other major kids’ TV shows, like Disney’s Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It was here where Selena met her future friend and fellow Disney alum, Demi Lovato-and she was able to bring home a generous paycheck in the process. According to Money Inc., Selena made about $3,000 per episode. We didn’t have a lot, but I never felt that.Selena got her start in the entertainment industry when she was just 7 years old, having landed a role on the children’s TV show Barney & Friends. “Before I started working at a young age, by all accounts I had a relatively ‘normal’ childhood. “I thought it was important to show a more uncomplicated time in my life,” Gomez says of these scenes. And yet much of the film delves into her childhood in Grand Prairie, Texas, a version of her life that she left behind for roles on Barney and Disney. “I think my past and my mistakes is what drives me into depression,” she says in the documentary. That meant exploring Gomez’s preoccupation with the past. I was trying to tell a story, hopefully, for people who don’t even know Selena or need to know her music.” “But I wasn’t making this just for her fans. ![]() “It had to be somehow more authentic and raw.” The filmmaker admits to shooting some of Gomez’s more buzzy events, but scrapping the footage in search of the unguarded moment.“There’s easily a 10-hour docuseries from this material we could have done,” he explains. (That’s more than both Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian, FYI.) “I was very aware that what I didn’t want was to do a social media look at the behind-the-scenes of Selena’s life. I was expecting a very manufactured person, and I didn’t get that,” Keshishian continues.Īs the film nears its highly anticipated debut, Keshishian has tuned out any noise that comes from documenting a person with more than 352 million Instagram followers. “I kind of fell in love with how authentic and vulnerable and real she was. “I was like, I don’t want to repeat myself.” Still, the filmmaker couldn’t help but be charmed by Gomez. “I’d said no to all music docs,” he tells me in his first interview about the project. The only snag? Keshishian had long sworn off movies about musicians. This isn’t just, ‘Here I am on tour and I’m going through things.’ It was a glimpse into someone’s life, and it had respect and love and empathy, and nothing was sugarcoated.” She continues, “I knew if I were ever to make a doc, I wanted Alek to direct it.” “I had seen Truth or Dare and thought it was one of the most brilliant music documentaries that’s ever been shot,” Gomez tells VF. The documentary’s origins can be traced back to the sultry 2015 music video for Gomez’s “Hands to Myself.” She was introduced to director Alek Keshishian, best known for his groundbreaking 1991 Madonna documentary, through his sister Aleen, Gomez’s manager since 2014. “It was never this thought-out plan thinking we were going to capture these very personal parts of my life,” Gomez says. Over the course of six years, what began as footage of her Revival tour morphed into Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, an unflinching look at the pop star’s mental health journey that debuts on Apple TV+ November 4. When Selena Gomez began filming her abruptly halted 2016 tour, she had no idea the resulting film would become her most confessional project to date: “The documentary took on a life of its own,” she tells Vanity Fair via email. ![]()
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