The Lord of the Rings trilogy may have racked up almost $3 billion at the box office, but star Cate Blanchett no one got paid anything. On Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, Andy Cohen asked the actress to reveal the biggest paycheck she’d ever received for a film. “I think it’s probably Lord of the Rings,” Cohen guessed. To which a surprised Blanchett replied, “Are you kidding me? No, no one got paid anything to do that movie.” When Andy asked if she got “a piece of the backend” afterward, Blanchett responded, “No! That was way before any of that, you know, no, nothing.” Blanchett starred as the great elf Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies. She cited the director as a key reason for her foray into Middle-earth. “I wanted to work with the guy who made Braindead,” she said, referring to Jackson’s 1992 zombie film. “I mean, I basically got free sandwiches and I got to keep my ears… No, no one got paid anything.” She added, “Women don’t get paid as much as you think they do.”