What really made Rob Lowe quit The West Wing?
Karen Hughes isn’t the only heartbreaker in the Beltway these days.
Lowe joinedWingas one of its highest-paid actors, earning about $70,000 per episode.
Credit: Rob Lowe Illustration by Robert di Michiell
That figure has held steady while castmateMartin Sheen’s recently negotiated salary is more than four times that amount.
(Their previous earnings?
Roughly $30,000 per episode.)
At the time, Lowe also asked producers for a raise and was told to wait an extra year.
They said, ‘We’re not negotiating."’
(In another Lowe blow, he was missing from the list of nineWing-ers who received Emmy nods.)
But Warnera division of Entertainment Weekly parent AOL Time Warnerhas yet to turn a profit on the show.
