| Sienna Miller and Broadway pay equity — did we ever figure out which play this was? | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 03:36 pm EST 02/26/21 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 03:34 pm EST 02/26/21 | |
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| I remember this being discussed when the story first broke in 2015, but I don't think we knew the subject matter of the play then. I'm thinking maybe Blackbird opposite Jeff Daniels? Anyway, from a new interview: Several years earlier, she had turned down what would have been her return to Broadway (she had played Sally Bowles in Cabaret there in 2015) over just such a dispute. The play in question was an equally weighted two-hander about sexual abuse. She was offered half the fee that her male co-star was getting. The issue was equality, not asking-price. “I made it clear that I didn’t mind if their offer to me was halved, just so long as we both got paid the same. The play was about abuse, so you’re already in kind of an inferior position as the woman going in. And I knew it would be gruelling in the rehearsal process; I knew how I’d feel playing a person who’d been abused. Undeniably this other actor has a huge audience, but it was a different age and gender, so I’m sure I could’ve pulled my weight in terms of getting people in there. It was just rampant patriarchy rearing its head again.” Did she expect her demands to be met? “Deep down I was thinking that if I stamped my feet, they’d do the right thing – and they didn’t. They moved on, and I missed out on a play I really wanted to do, which is sad. But there was a lesson in that for me, which is about starting to advocate for myself, and the self-worth that comes from that kind of behaviour.” |
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| Link | Sienna Miller: 'I go in and negotiate as if I’m a man' |
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