Taragi Henderson stated in an interview that she is underpaid as an actress. Especial compared to White actresses, and especially to white actors. Her clam that she made only $ 35,000 for her roll in the Color Purple…Now the insinuation is That she made a lot less than if she was a white actress. Now to of the four producers of this movie are African American ..and the director is African American…I kind f guess they didn’t slight themselves. What isn’t brought put in the interview was what her costars who also happen to be black actresses got for their performances in this picture for without their amount paid one can not tell if Taragi was underpaid because she is a black actress or not..
Maybe Taragi shouldn’t have made this move, but I’m sure she has representatives who help negotiate deals.
There are other strange money things that came out as Oprah stating that she made only $35,000 when she was n the original Color Purple. Well that would be over $100,000 today. As an actress is was an unknown quantity.
Now the cast of Hidden Figures the black actresses maybe shouldn’t have gotten more the Kevin Cosner who was a known quantity but they ( in my mind) should have gotten much more the Jim Parsons, for the whole movie was about them…No I do not know the pay check of anyone connected to the movie..or for that matter the New Musical Color Purple.
* The whole purpose of this exercise is to point out that one should not jump to conclusions.
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