i m going to do that as a social experiment! but i don t think i would get the same remuneration as a male co actor. and is hollywood any different? well, it s the first time it s happened to me, has happened in hollywood, so i don t know going forward, because this was my first show with someone as a co lead in hollywood after ten years of working in hollywood, i m finally doing lead parts. it took a really, really long time, a lot of pavement pounding to be able to say, to be able to get roles that, in a mainstream way, and i always wanted to be a part of mainstream entertainment, whether that was in bollywood or hollywood. so it takes a long time anyway, but it took a really, really long time for me to be able to get to a part where i am doing leading roles, and then to be able to command that kind of parity. but, yeah, i ve seen that there, ijust don t know, going forward, if it will continue or not. i ll keep you posted on that one too!
start with bollywood. what s been your experience of that? well, i ve never had pay parity in bollywood. i ve done 60 something movies, i think, but i ve never got paid the same amount as my male co actor. ijust about after 22 years of working, now finally in my show citadel, finally had that, but that took 22 years! when you say you didn t have pay parity, i mean, how.how different was it? like, i would get paid about.10% of my male co actor. wow. that s large, substantially large. and so many girls still deal with that. and i m sure i will too if i worked with a male co actor now in bollywood. so, that was my next question has it changed at all or is it changing? it s changing, but i don t think it s changed. i think even if i do that now, if i worked in a movie with a male co actor as a co lead. i mean, i ll let you know when i do
and, of course, that comes from our colonial past, it comes from, you know. it s not even been 100 years that we ve shed the british raj. so we still hold onto, i think, what we were made to feel subliminally, and it is up to us and our generation to be able to cut those ties and change it for the next generation so that they don t inherit the equity on light skin, they don t inherit the gender equality that we probably thought was normal. i thought it was completely normal and absolutely 0k to sit for hours and hours on set while my male co actor just took his own time, decided whenever he wanted to show up on set is when we would shoot. it was normal, you know, when fairness commercials came by and it was a really big shiny brand, it was normal for actors, male and women, to say, oh, wow, i have glowing white skin now. there was nothing wrong around it. when i was 21, 22, i did think that i was dark skinned.
a movie like that because i m going to do that as a social experiment! but i don t think i would get the same remuneration as a male co actor. and is hollywood any different? well, it s the first time it s happened to me, has happened in hollywood, so i don t know going forward, because this was my first show with someone as a co lead in hollywood after ten years of working in hollywood, i m finally doing lead parts. it took a really, really long time, a lot of pavement pounding to be able to say, to be able to get roles that, in a mainstream way, and i always wanted to be a part of mainstream entertainment, whether that was in bollywood or hollywood. so it takes a long time anyway, but it took a really, really long time for me to be able to get to a part where i am doing leading roles, and then to be able to command that kind of parity. but, yeah, i ve seen that there, ijust don t know, going forward, if it will continue or not. i ll keep you posted on that one, too! you know, one o
as a social experiment! but i don t think i would get the same remuneration as a male co actor. and is hollywood any different? well, it s the first time it s happened to me, has happened in hollywood, so i don t know going forward, because this was my first show with someone as a co lead in hollywood after ten years of working in hollywood, i m finally doing lead parts. it took a really, really long time, a lot of pavement pounding to be able to say, to be able to get roles that, in a mainstream way, and i always wanted to be a part of mainstream entertainment, whether that was in bollywood or hollywood. so it takes a long time anyway, but it took a really, really long time for me to be able to get to a part where i am doing leading roles, and then to be able to command that kind of parity. but, yeah, i ve seen that there, ijust don t know, going forward, if it will continue or not. i ll keep you posted on that one too! you know, one of the things i ve heard and it was said