Kangana Ranaut Echoes Priyanka Chopra¡¯s Pay Parity Views, Says ¡®Only I¡¯m Paid Like Male Actors¡¯
Time and again, Kangana Ranaut has spoken strongly against the odds she faced in the entertainment industry. The Thalaivii actress has again echoed her thoughts on pay parity in showbiz and claimed that she¡¯s the only female actor who gets paid as much as her male colleagues.
Kangana shared her thoughts in reaction to Priyanka Chopra¡¯s explosive statement on pay parity.
For the unversed, Kangana and Priyanka have worked together in films like Fashion, Krrish 3 and Shootout at Wadala. The statement in reference was from an interview that PeeCee gave BBC last year where she said, ¡°I have never had pay parity in Bollywood. I have done almost 60 movies there, but I have never got paid the same amount as my male co-actor.¡±
¡°I would get paid about 10 per cent of my male co-actor. It (the pay gap) is substantially large and so many girls still deal with that.¡±
Priyanka further added, ¡°I did think that I was dark-skinned. I did think that I was not pretty enough. I did think that I would have to work a lot harder even though I was probably a little bit more talented than my co-actors who were lighter-skinned. I thought that was right because it was so normalised. I think, as I grew up, I saw things in my career that I didn¡¯t even know were right or wrong and I had to be educated and learn along the way.¡±
Kangana Ranaut shared this clip in her Instagram story and wrote a long note spitting some shocking views.
The Queen actress wrote, ¡°It¡¯s true women before me simply submitted to these patriarchal norms¡ I was the first one to fight for pay parity and the most disgusting thing that I faced while doing this was that my contemporaries offered to work for free on the same roles that I was negotiating for¡¡±
¡°I can say with confidence most A-listers (women) do films for free along with offering other favours because they fear roles will go to the right people¡ and then shrewdly release articles that they are the highest paid, haha¡ in the film industry everyone knows that only I get paid like male actors and no one else¡ and they have no one else to blame at least now.¡±
Kangana has a long-run enmity with filmmaker Karan Johar and several reports suggest that Priyanka too is on a cold war with KJo. Interesting, isn't it?
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