However, the actor clarified that this figure does not reflect what he really put into his pocket. “Between agent, manager and taxes, we were left with half,” Peck explained.

After these discounts, the actual annual income was approximately $125,000 a year, an amount that, while considerable, is not enough to stop working forever.

"People always assume that it was much more and that we would never have to work again. But, of course, if you earned a dentist's salary, you couldn't stop working after four years," the actor compared.

Financial insecurity as a driver

Peck also shared that growing up with a single mother in an unstable financial situation, she became the primary breadwinner for her family from a young age.

This experience deeply marked his relationship with money. “If you have it ingrained in you that you never want to be broke again, you will run like your pants are on fire for as long as you can, and I have done that,” he confessed. “I always saw in myself a deep financial insecurity that drove everything I did.”