re: Kevin Costner seemed to be a joy to work with

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If he doesnt get what he wants, then he’s just onto the next… If i had FU money id be the same way .

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That's exactly why having that kind of money—especially when you made it by doing something frivolous like entertaining—is not good for people's mental and emotional health.

Studies indicate that it's extremely common for people in that position to vastly overestimate their talent/intelligence/ability, to start believing that they are fundamentally better than "average people," and that the lack of financial consequences for their decisions (even terrible ones) starts to lead them to believe that they will experience no significant negative consequences for any decisions made about any aspect of their lives (health, relationships, etc.). It basically wrecks people's character.

It's also difficult for people at that level to have real friends because there are so few people to whom they can relate in their situation and also because they don't trust people who aren't in a similar position.

That's why these really rich movie stars think they need to lecture everyone else on political topics like Climate Change, but they see nothing wrong with continuing to circle the globe on a whim in private jets. It's why they get married on a whim and divorced on a whim and none of them can stay married. It's why Michael Jackson kept having plastic surgery until his face started having rouble holding together without sliding off his skull and why he kept diddling little kids even after he had been caught multiple times.

It's why so many of them end up lonely and addicted to something. And some of them end up killing themselves. Either consciously and deliberately or subconsciously and slowly.

It's tempting to want that sort of money, but it's probably better for the vast majority of people to not have it.

Ending up retiring ten or twelve years early with 4 million dollars in the bank after a career's worth of hard work and stability and solid relationships with other humans in business and family and real friendships is a great goal, IMO. But the research says that having 400 million dollars for pretending to be someone else on camera is not conducive to a happy existence, believe it or not.