Tom Hollander "badly" paid for Pirates work

'Rev' star, Tom Hollander has said that he was "badly" paid for his work as bad guy Lord Cutler Beckett in Gore Verbinski's 'Pirates of the Caribbean' series.

The actor was Speaking at the names Not Numbers festival in Aldeburgh when he revealed that he found the work on the "staggeringly expensive" blockbuster unsatisfying, both artistically and financially.

He also told the festival crowd that the entire film revolved around the health of Johnny Depp, with production being halted for nine months at one point due to Depp's bout of flu.

Apparently Tom got his revenge for the unrewarding experience by making sure he put as much distance between himself and the set whenever he had time off.

“It was a way of getting my own back. When they changed the schedule at the last minute, I would say, 'That’s fine, but I’m in Calcutta’, and they would say 'No problem’, and I would be airlifted out of the Third World in Lufthansa first class.”

The 45-year old actor went on to say that after a break he and fellow actors often reconvened in Miami airport's smoking room!

“We’d go back, and on one occasion we got there – Bill Nighy had come from wherever he’d come from, and Geoffrey Rush had come from Sydney, and we’d meet in the smoking room of Miami Airport, which is always full of actors, because, obviously, everyone else has given up smoking, but actors are still so anxious they have to smoke.”