It was and it wasn’t. It gave her some “cred” as a serious actress, although she was already well regarded from her work in things like Cider House Rules. But she had already played the “female lead” in a couple of movies by that point (including Devil’s Advocate with Keanu and The Italian Job with Marky Mark). So she…

Of course you can’t, but that’s why actors hustle all the time and don’t just work one job per year. This is $50K for perhaps 10 weeks worth of work. Then there’s some more work to be done promoting it, but that’s not going to take up the other 42 weeks of her year. The wage gap is real, but her salary on this movie…

Monster especially comes to mind. Unlike Mo’Nique, Charlize has been groomed since entering the industry to be a big star. I’m sure her salary for that film was huge, and it was an enormous boost to her career.

Because nobody goes to see her movies.

Jennifer Lawrence earned the SAG minimum for her Oscar winning performance in Winter’s Bone, and Barkhad Abdi only made $65,000 for his Oscar nominated performance in Captain Philips. All of the contracts are negotiated before filming, so it isn’t at all unusual for an actor to make a relatively small amount of money…

I wish my bosses would pay me more too, but they know they could find someone to do the same work for less. That same logic is what determines these actresses pay.

What, just because they aren’t the stars, they couldn’t have bigger paychecks than the stars? Christopher Reeve got $250k for starring in Superman. For the same movie, Marlon Brando had 10 minutes of screen time, and made $14 million from salary and % of gross.

Sounds like someone needs to call J.G. Wentworth. It’s her money and she needs it now!

You think all White Americans owe all Black Americans reparations? Did I parse that correctly?

Trying to picture Anna Paquin complaining about her post-Oscar salary for playing the young Jane Eyre in the 1996 version of Jane Eyre starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.

“That coupled with winning an Emmy for her role in Bessie should have helped her get paid more than 50k for a decent sized role in any movie for which she auditions.”

Unless you’re willing to give up your own position as a journalist to a minority you’re just another hypocrit telling other people they need to give up their privileges while holding onto your own. Area you going to distribute what you earned from this article to struggling black journalists? If course you aren’t.…

The fact that she won an oscar for that movie is the most ridiculous part imo.

Of course not- the whole idea is silly.

Leonardo Dicaprio made twice that much for Titanic movie and that was a big big budget movie. Even so, black actresses get paid much less than their counterparts for sure, but the problems she’s had since Precious are pretty much out there and how difficult she is. And not just in demanding money, which is great, but…

Leonardo DiCaprio only made $100,000 for his leading role in TITANIC, so...

Did I say that? No. But what about Cobie and Linda? They’re in it. They’re acting. So they should be paid equally? Equal to whom?

Then you’ll see people complaining that they aren’t being treated as A-list when they’re totes A-list. Really.

What did Mariah Carey and Paula Patton make for Precious?

Yeah! Why didn’t the studios just give the actors and directors all of the profits? Because everyone knows that Gross Box Office minus reported Budget equals profits!