Priyanka Chopra claims she was asked to leave film set over equal pay
Priyanka Chopra claims she was asked to leave film set over equal pay https://t.co/0HkyfVP0Y1 pic.twitter.com/qrvQyb8nnq
- Page Six (@PageSix) February 9, 2021
Priyanka Chopra says that a movie producer told her she “should leave” his film set if she wasn’t willing to be paid less than her male co-stars. Producers told her “There’s so many other girls who will take this opportunity. And, you know, women in movies are interchangeable.”
She decided to stay on the shoot.
“I didn’t do anything about it. I had to work within the system because that’s what we’re told, that, ‘You know, if you want this job … this is the only way.' It took almost 15 years for me to get to that place where, you know, I could stand my ground. It took hearing the conversations from other women banding together to give me the confidence to stand up for myself.”
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