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Sam Rockwell Says He “Still” Gets Residual Checks For ‘Lean On Me’ “Even Though I’m Not In It”

Of his many memorable performances, Sam Rockwell is apparently still getting paid for one that never happened.

The Oscar winner recently recalled when he, Michael Imperioli and Kevin Corrigan “drove in a van to New Jersey to audition for one line in Lean on Me ” early in their careers, as well as how he still gets paid despite not appearing in the 1989 film. Credited in the film as ‘George’, Imperioli’s line was ultimately cut as well, but his “first experience on a movie” still made an impression after working with director John G. Avildsen on the biographical drama. “He was very impatient,” Rockwell’s fellow White Lotus alum Imperioli told The New Yorker last year.

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