In addition to expensive treatment, Van Der Beek isn’t earning the same amount of cash he did in his prime decades ago. He said he was paid “almost nothing” for Dawson’s Creek and that his contract did not include a balance. Writers, actors and directors are paid when their work is rebroadcast on television. Actors from other shows that were still popular around the same time, such as Friends, reportedly earn around $20 million a year from these payments.
