【】

In the kind of power move that would make Claire Underwood proud, Robin Wright revealed on Tuesday that she insisted upon being paid the same amount as her male costar Kevin Spacey on Netflix's House of Cards.
“I was like, ‘I want to be paid the same as Kevin,’” Wright said at the Rockefeller Foundation's Insight Dialogues on May 17.
“I was looking at the statistics and Claire Underwood’s character was more popular than [Frank’s] for a period of time. So I capitalized on it. I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public.' And they did.”
According to Business Insider, Spacey was already making at least $500,000 per episode of the show, compared to Wright's $420,000 (reported a year later, when Spacey was likely making more).
“It was the perfect paradigm," Wright said. "There are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in House of Cards.”
Hollywood's gaping gender-based wage disparities have been around for as long as the institution itself, but celebrities from Jennifer Lawrence to Kate Winslet are now coming forward to talk about it (or in Winslet's case, to talk about talking about it). Sarah Silverman also highlighted these financial discrepancies outside the entertainment industry, sung to the tune of the $30 million working women lose each year due to unequal salaries.
Maybe this is Claire Underwood's new platform.
Mashable reached out to Wright's representatives for comment, and will update this story.
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.
TopicsNetflix
相关文章
Teacher absolutely nails it with new homework policy
The war against homework has begun.。A massive pile of homework after a long day at school is enough2025-07-15Huawei reportedly cut off by major chipmakers Intel and Qualcomm
Huawei is finding itself in even more of a pickle.Chipmakers Intel, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and Broadcom h2025-07-15Elton John has defiant response after 'Rocketman' censored in Russia
The Russian release of Rocketmanis missing a number of scenes, including those that depict drug use2025-07-15Apple’s $6,000 cheese grater is a goddamn revelation
Get a load of this Apple cheese grater. The new Mac Pro, unveiled onstage today at WWDC in San Jose,2025-07-15Tributes flow after death of former Singapore president S.R. Nathan
The Singaporean government has announced that former president, 92-year-old Sellapan Ramanathan (wid2025-07-15Gwendoline Christie correctly predicted who would end up on the Iron Throne 2 whole years ago
This article contains spoilers in abundance. If you haven't watched the Game of Thrones finale yet,2025-07-15
最新评论