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Leslie Jones is one other Black lady in Hollywood who’s skilled unequal pay in comparison with her co-stars.
In her new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones, the comedienne-actress unpacked the fraught drama surrounding her function in 2016’s Ghostbusters alongside white stars Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.
Jones claimed she was paid “means much less” than her co-stars within the Paul Feig-directed reimagining of the Nineteen Eighties fan favourite. The 56-year-old Grocery store Sweep host stated she was initially lowballed with a proposal from these behind the digital camera, who promised the Ghostbusters function can be nice publicity.
“It was made clear to me at instances in the course of the course of that I used to be fortunate to even be on that film, however truthfully, I used to be pondering, ‘I don’t need to be on this muthafucka,’ particularly as I obtained paid means lower than Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig,” the 56-year previous actress wrote in an excerpt of her memoir, shared by Rolling Stone Sept. 19. “No knock on them, however my first supply was to try this film for $67,000.”
“I needed to battle to get extra (in the long run I obtained $150K), however the message was clear: ‘That is gonna blow you up — after this, you’re made for all times,’ all that type of shit, as if I hadn’t had many years of a profitable profession already.”
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The Ghostbusters solid moreover starred Kate McKinnon, Zach Woods, Steve Higgins and extra. In line with IMBD, the movie’s funds was $144 million, and it revamped $229 million worldwide. The Hollywood Reporter famous that McCarthy took dwelling $14 million — making Jones’ facet of the story all of the extra stark.
The latter’s ties to the movie had been moreover distressed as a consequence of racist on-line trolling and demise threats she obtained from those that didn’t wish to see ladies — significantly a Black one — solid in a Ghostbusters movie.
Jones stated that she’d obtained “many of the hate” as a result of, for some males, her spot within the nostalgia-provoking film was “the ultimate straw.”
The actress needed to briefly take down her X account as a result of there had been a number of makes an attempt to hack it, and the racism she endured was overwhelmingly heartbreaking at the moment.
“I cried not as a result of I used to be being bullied, however as a result of that is our world and since I can’t consider anybody would do that shit to somebody, anybody, for working. That is terrible. I’m in a film. Dying threats for one thing as small as that?”
The Saturday Evening Dwell alum is at the moment on a e-book tour for Leslie F*cking Jones. Her subsequent stops are in Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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