Priyanka Chopra: I don’t like the fact that I get paid much less than the boys
| Updated: Jan 12, 2017, 16:23 IST
Priyanka Chopra has often expressed her resentment over the prevailing pay disparity between men and women in the film industry. The ‘Quantico’ star in an interview with BBC spoke about how this issue exists not just in the Indian film Industry but in the West as well.
“Yes, I don’t like the fact I get paid much less than the boys, even though I work as hard as them. Yes, I don’t like the fact that the disparity is so massive. But it is a mindset thing; it is people looking at women differently than boys. Boys are heroes. Girls are heroines but they are not heroes. When you see male actors and the business their films do – I’m talking about India and not America but even like the west is the same – they will make about, you know, $40m or $50m for their films in box office and our films just about touch $10-15m, I mean female-led films, just a female lead. So when we are able to deliver, when the audience is ready to watch a female led film with a woman on a poster and make it into a $40m film we will get paid for it,” said Priyanka.
Priyanka is currently shooting for the second season of ‘Quantico’ in New York and will soon be making her Hollywood debut alongside Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron with ‘Baywatch’. Priyanka will be portraying the main antagonist in the film which will hit the theatres on 26th May.
“Yes, I don’t like the fact I get paid much less than the boys, even though I work as hard as them. Yes, I don’t like the fact that the disparity is so massive. But it is a mindset thing; it is people looking at women differently than boys. Boys are heroes. Girls are heroines but they are not heroes. When you see male actors and the business their films do – I’m talking about India and not America but even like the west is the same – they will make about, you know, $40m or $50m for their films in box office and our films just about touch $10-15m, I mean female-led films, just a female lead. So when we are able to deliver, when the audience is ready to watch a female led film with a woman on a poster and make it into a $40m film we will get paid for it,” said Priyanka.
Priyanka is currently shooting for the second season of ‘Quantico’ in New York and will soon be making her Hollywood debut alongside Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron with ‘Baywatch’. Priyanka will be portraying the main antagonist in the film which will hit the theatres on 26th May.