During an interview with The Guardian, Sean Astin confesses to selling his house during the release of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. After explaining how much attention he was getting he said, “And there was a disconnect between the attention that I was getting and how much money we had. It was not a lot of money. In fact, I had to sell my house because I negotiated such a small amount on the trilogy.”

However, this is not the first time Astin admitted to this. Eight years ago, On the Jim and Sam show, Astin talked about getting a new house around the time he auditioned for The Lord of the Rings. His financial advisor said he he must make 250,00 a year to live in this new house. With knowing that, Astin had found himself in a financial situation.  “Did the audition process and got offered Lord of the Rings and it was an offer for 250,00o for a year and a half and I was like ‘wait a minute, my pen signed this contract which obligated me to 250 a year and I’m going to sign this contract which will make it so that I can not satisfy that other thing,” Astin said. He said that each film was 75,000 for him and he did not receive any residuals for the films.

Returning to The Guardian article, Astin has confirmed he is “very comfortable financially now.”