| re: Sienna Miller and Broadway pay equity — did we ever figure out which play this was? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:51 pm EST 02/27/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Sienna Miller and Broadway pay equity — did we ever figure out which play this was? - Michael_Portantiere 04:01 pm EST 02/27/21 | |
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| Sure, you can cherry pick any one actor and say, "This person is famous for this franchise, and thus has a very wide audience" In this case, you picked two super famous people who have been in multiple iconic franchises (Ian McKellen is Lord of the Rings/X-Men, not Harry Potter, but the analogy still works), which I don't think anyone would suggest that any of the "Blackbird" actors can rival. So then it's as much about which daytime TV shows can the actor go on, which podcasts can they guest on (Siena Miller can go on The Cut more easily than Jeff Daniels, for example), which magazines or newspapers or websites will write about the show because of the actor, etc. etc. etc. These days, it's about who follows them on Instagram or Twitter, and what influencers do they have access to who can also promote the show on social media. I could have made that clearer in my original post, where I just mentioned fan base as a quick shorthand, because it really is about the entire apparatus. There are arguments to be made that Daniels is more famous than Miller, so he should get more money as a box office draw (though it's hard to argue he's worth twice as much). There's also an argument to be made that the play is an emotionally exhausting two-hander that requires the female actor to go into a place of deep trauma and expose that on stage, so they should be paid the same or if anything, she should get paid more for doing the harder work. And of course, it is 100% undeniable that there is a massive gender pay-gap in the entertainment industry that has been exhaustively reported on, and that any attempt to carve out an exception must first acknowledge that we're talking about a historically sexist industry that still pays men more than women, and so it is at the very least possible that this situation reflects some amount of bias that leads to the devaluing of women. |
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