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Celebrity Priyanka Chopra is in a cheerful park due to her internet line Fortress receiving sure reaction the world over. Throughout the promotions of the undercover agent mystery, which options her along Richard Madden, the actress mentioned that for the primary occasion in her over two-decade-long profession she gained equivalent pay. Now, as a visitor at the American communicate display The View, Priyanka Chopra has shared how she first of all didn’t imagine that equivalent pay was once an opportunity and attributed the sure construction to Amazon Studios prominent Jennifer Salke’s perceptible. Talking about receiving equivalent pay for Fortress, Priyanka Chopra mentioned: “Thank God. 23 years later. But I do think – and I have talked about this a little bit – the head of film and TV for Amazon Prime is Jennifer Salke whose idea was Citadel. She came in five years ago and she wanted to build this global universe. I wonder if the head of the studio was not female, would this have been a different conversation? Would it have been a conversation because with her it wasn’t. They [the team] went back and said, ‘They’re playing co-leads, and should be paid the same.’ She was like, ‘Yeah, it’s only fair’.”
Sharing that she didn’t even imagine equivalent pay was once an opportunity sooner than Fortress, Priyanka Chopra persevered, “My cynical self was once like, ‘Refuse, it’s by no means committing to occur’. I’m telling my brokers – ‘You’ll ask for it, however, guys, I’ve accomplished this for an extended occasion’.”
She added that this is why it is important for women to be in decision-making positions, “Because it changes other women’s lives. After Citadel, every job I have done where I’m the co-lead, I’ve gotten parity. So, it did change my life. ”
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Earlier, Priyanka Chopra revealed during an interview at the 2023 South by Southwest Film Festival with Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon Studios, that she had finally received equal pay for her work on Citadel and that this was a first in her career. Priyanka acknowledged that her statement might land her in trouble depending on who was listening. She said, “I might get into trouble for saying this, depending on who’s watching. I’ve been working in the entertainment industry for 22 years, and I have done almost 70-plus features and two TV shows. But when I did Citadel, it was the first time in my career that I had pay parity. I’m laughing about this, but it’s kind of nuts.”
Before that in an interview with BBC 100 Women, Priyanka Chopra spoke about pay parity and said, “It (the pay gap) is large, substantially large. And so many women still deal with that. I’m sure I will too if I worked with a male co-actor now in Bollywood.”
“I thought it was absolutely OK to sit for hours and hours on set, while my male co-actor just took his own time, and decided whenever he wanted to show up on set is when we would shoot,” she added about her working experience in Bollywood.
After the back-to-back releases of the web series Citadel and film Love Again, Priyanka Chopra will be seen in Jee Le Zaraa with Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif. The film will be directed by Farhan Akhtar.
