Brenda Song Reveals Suite Life of Zack & Cody Cast Was “Underpaid and Overworked” by Disney Channel.
The bank account of Brenda Song is not as suitable as it may be. Reflecting on her stint on Disney Channel, the Suite Life of Zack & Cody actor said that she and her co-stars seemed to have put in a lot of effort yet left with little to show for it.
In an episode of his Wildmen podcast on November 10, Song revealed to her co-star Dylan Sprouse, “I look at that time and I was like, we paid them.”
Even while the 38-year-old stressed that she had a "lovely time" as hotel heiress London Tipton in Suite Life and its offshoot series The Suite Life on Deck from 2005 to 2011, one issue remains.
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As she perceives it, “The only thing that was hard about that time was I feel like we were underpaid and overworked.”
In fact, Song—mom to kids Dakota, born in 2021, and Carson, born in 2022, with fiancé Macaulay Culkin—is shocked that her time on the show hasn’t put her in the penthouse. Looking back at her years starring alongside Sprouse, his twin brother Cole Sprouse and Ashley Tisdale, the Running Point actress noted, “We basically did and the fact that we shot hundreds of episodes and our kids should be set.”
Sprouse concurred, for his side.
“If our show existed on any other network television channel at that time, we would have seven generations of children that would not have to worry about what they do,” the 34-year-old, who is married to Barbara Palvin and has a two-month-old daughter named Sylvie, stated. “The amount of income would be completely different.”
Song, however, is appreciative of her time on the Disney Channel, where she starred in popular films like Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, Get a Clue, The Ultimate Christmas Present, and Stuck in the Suburbs.
“Disney did give us a platform to be sitting here right now,” she clarified. “So it’s very hard to complain about certain things.”
However, Song also stated, “I look back on it, and I was like oh my goodness we did actually pay them to work.”
Disney has been contacted by news organizations for comment, but they have not yet received a response.
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