Close to a week after the news broke about Crazy Rich Asians screenwriter Adele Lim leaving the sequels due to a huge pay disparity between her and co-writer Peter Chiarelli, director Jon M. Chu re…
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Chu responded with a lengthy photographed tweet on how he stands with Adele, and that he’s proud “that she was able to stand up for her own measure of worth and walk away when she felt like she was being undervalued. I have experienced this several times in my years of making movies trying to keep a creative team together on budgets big and small.” In his response, Chu describes the various facets of the negotiation.
“I am, of course, frustrated that we all can’t do the next one together, but I think the conversation this has started is MUCH more important than ourselves , so who am I to get in the way of that. I agree with Adele that parity for women and people of color is crucial to the continued enlightenment of our industry and we still have a long way to go,” said Chu who is directing the Tony-winning musical In regards to Chiarelli, Chu asked that “as a community, we should not go after” him.
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