Robin Wright: “In House of Cards deny me the same salary as Kevin Spacey”

Certain nodes put us so much to come to a comb, e Robin Wright He knows something about it. The actress is, in fact, recently returned to talk about the Treatment received by Netflix during the years in which he starred in House of Cardsone of the first original series of the platform. Speaking at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival Robin Wright said that, despite the growing popularity of his character Claire Underwood, The same compensation as the co-protagonist Kevin Spacey has never been recognized.

«It was complicated, I will be honest. I pointed out that my character had become as central as Kevin’s, but the answer was: ‘We cannot pay you the same wayhowever, we will also give you the role of executive producer and you can direct. You will have three different salaries. To my question: ‘Why can’t you pay me as an actress?’ I was told: ‘Because you didn’t win an Oscar‘» At the time Spacey had won two – one, in 1995, for The usual suspicionsand the other in 2000 for American Beauty -, but to advance this explanation to justify the disparity of salary was quite unfair.

Michael Dobbs’ novel had two adaptations: one British in 1990 (BBC), and the other, more recently, of Netflix in 2013, with Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

«This was the standard for years. When asking: ‘Because this actress gained less than Will Smith’ The answer is: ‘His cachet will increase, but only after a Oscar or an important victory‘» In an interview a Marie Claire Robin Wright had already told in the past that he had (rightly) exploited the popularity of Claire Underwood to obtain contractual renegotiation: «I said: ‘I want the same salary as Kevin’. At that moment, House of Cards It was one of the few products in which the female character had the same weight as the male one. For a period, Claire was also more loved than Frank Underwood. I leveraged this and I said: ‘Either you pay me properly, or I will make the situation publishes’. So it went “.