At a current panel, Priyanka Chopra Jonas stated that she has solely acquired equal pay with a male costar as soon as.
Priyanka has 78 performing credit on her IMDb. One among her upcoming initiatives is the Prime Video collection Citadel, the place she stars alongside Richard Madden within the spy thriller.
Talking on the South by Southwest Movie Competition on Friday, Priyanka started by saying, “I would get into bother for [saying this], is dependent upon who’s watching.”
“I’ve been working within the leisure business for now 22 years, and I’ve finished about nearly 70-plus options and two TV exhibits,” she continued. “However after I did Citadel, it was the primary time in my profession that I had pay parity.”
“I’m laughing about this, nevertheless it’s type of nuts,” Priyanka defined. “I put in the identical quantity of funding and work, however I receives a commission a lot much less. However the ease by which Amazon Studios stated, ‘That’s what you deserve, you’re co-leads, that’s simply truthful,’ and I used to be like, ‘You’re proper, it’s truthful.’”
This is not the primary time Priyanka has mentioned equal pay. “I’ve by no means had pay parity in Bollywood,” Priyanka stated again in December. “I’d receives a commission about 10% of the wage of my male co-actor. [The pay gap] is giant, considerably giant. And so many ladies nonetheless take care of that. I’m certain I’ll too if I labored with a male co-actor now in Bollywood.”
Citadel will debut on Amazon Prime Video on April 28.