Cynthia Erivo says the most taxing request she has to make on-set is if “we could please have this makeup artist with me because usually there are no Black makeup artists on a set and you’re the only one who needs one”
which was more like a Zoom call among some of the most in-demand television actresses around, Cynthia Erivo and Gillian Anderson talked pay equity and the fact thatAnderson was the first to be asked about pay, having spoken up previously that she was offered a “tenth” of what co-star David Duchovny was offered to reboot. “That was the point where I was like, “Fuck this. I’m actually going to talk about this [publicly].
I put my foot down, not because the stakes weren’t high, but if they were going to fire me, some people were going to have some things to say about that. It’s very different for a young woman going into a job situation with a boss who’s overbearing and asking for a pay raise.I mean, the obvious is I’m a Black woman, and that has a lot to do with how you’re paid, how you’re hired, if you’re hired, the way you’re hired — it affects everything.
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