At a current panel, Priyanka Chopra Jonas mentioned that she has solely obtained equal pay with a male costar as soon as.
Priyanka has 78 performing credit on her IMDb. One in all her upcoming tasks is the Prime Video collection Citadel, the place she stars alongside Richard Madden within the spy thriller.
Talking on the South by Southwest Movie Pageant on Friday, Priyanka started by saying, “I would get into hassle for [saying this], will depend on 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, but it surely’s sort 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 mentioned, ‘That’s what you deserve, you might be co-leads, that’s simply honest,’ and I used to be like, ‘You’re proper, it’s honest.’”
This is not the primary time Priyanka has mentioned equal pay. “I’ve by no means had pay parity in Bollywood,” Priyanka mentioned again in December. “I’d receives a commission about 10% of the wage of my male co-actor. [The pay gap] is massive, considerably massive. And so many ladies nonetheless cope with 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.