Black women are treated like trash in hollywood, and she has every right to complain. I wonder if some of ya'll were making these same comments when Jennifer Lawrence complained.

Also all of ya'll that are complaining I hope ya'll go and see Hidden Figures.

Damn I would be pissed

Ikr.

Having her pay for her own accommodations was messy

Did you miss the part where she was paid less than her peers for American Hustle?

That's just a slap in the face, tbh. Good thing, she's speaking up

She's not likeable though so?

The hypocrites in this thread.

I don't think it's as cut and dry as "she's black and a woman so she was paid less" as some of y'all are making it out to be, but it's great she's exposing this. Third in the billing and she has to pay for own lodging? That's ****ing ridiculous... Maybe if it were some indie movie with a $2 mil budget, but the budget for this was like $200 million. Whoever made the money decisions on this movie needs to be called out and ridiculed.

I hope others start sharing similar details. Transparency in movie budgeting would be very beneficial in understanding and fixing the pay gap, not just with actors, but with technical crew as well.

I don't think this has to do with her being black. If a working white actress were in her position, I believe the offer would have been similar to hers. I watched the movie in theaters and didn't know she was in it. She probably thought she was bigger than she really was.

They should have never made her pay location fees, she is a talented actress.

LOOLLOLOL what was she expecting? She wasn't no JLaw in 2008. Of couse she would bank much less than Brad and Cate who are already ICONIC Hollywood royalty.

Her paying for her own accomodation is TRAGIC tho

I agree but not because she's a talented actress. I mean, if she were untalented her paying location fees wouldn't be cool either.

Either way, she was not known for many things outside of the urban community and this was a mainstream movie.

I don't think it is about her being black or female...

Yeah, because she wasn't a star at all at the time Hollywood pay is based on star power. The film was a total ensemble piece outside of Brad and Cate.

She shouldn't be comparing her salary with Brad, but with Julia Ormond (who played the grown up daughter in present day). But that wouldn't fit her narrative or get her any press, and it's cool to bash Brad right now cause he's in the middle of a messy divorce. I mean, she's still getting paid SIX FIGURES for a couple months of work, but hey, this is some great injustice, right? Even though the other actors, both white and black, who had similar-sized roles probably got paid around the same.

Very transparent and disappointing move on Taraji's part.

I thought ATRL only used this corny line for rappers/urban hits... no?

The part about her hotel fees is definitely unfair but it's not because she's a woman. I know how the industry works and that's because studios are cheap as **** and don't care about you if you're not their big star of the film. It happens to men, women, black, white, everyone. Being an actor in Hollywood is so ludicrously cuthroat and competitive, even Taraji with her 2% of Brad Pitt's salary in a film like Benjamin Button is still 0.1% of working actors and what most people would only dream of. It's the unfair reality of that industry, but being an actor is already a pretty unrealistic, risky career.

Her peers in that film were Julia Osmond and Tilda Swinton, other actors with supporting roles, NOT Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, who were the LEADS.

It's not, it's economics. Brad Pitt's presence in that film made it a commercial success, ensured its profitability, and if he or a similar actor hadn't signed on the film would have never been made. His presence was absolutely essential to the existence and the success of the project. Taraji, just like Tilda or Julia or any of the other supporting cast, could have been replaced by any actress and it wouldn't have made a difference in terms of the film's performance. It's like a CEO who has the vision and experience and connections to make a business boom vs a random middle manager who may be excellent at their job, but can be replaced by anyone and the bottom line will be the same. 2% sounds tough but that's how the world works. It makes sense financially.

The part about this that's truly objectionable is the fact that they made her pay for her accommodations. That's just studios being cheap and mistreating their actors.

Pretty ridiculous to compare her salary to that of top A list actors. Also, fire your agent if he can't negotiate you a satisfactory deal.