At a recent panel, Priyanka Chopra Jonas said she has only received equal pay with a male costar once.
Priyanka has 78 acting credits on her IMDb. One of her upcoming projects is the Prime Video series Citadelwhere she stars alongside Richard Madden in the spy thriller.
Speaking at the South by Southwest Film Festival on Friday, Priyanka began by saying, “I can get in trouble for (saying this), depending on who’s watching.”
“I’ve been in the entertainment industry for 22 years now and I’ve done about 70 plus features and two TV shows,” she continued. “But when I did Citadelit was the first time in my career that I had pay parity.”
“I’m laughing at this, but it’s kind of crazy,” Priyanka explained. “I put in the same amount of investment and work, but I get paid a lot less. But the ease with which Amazon Studios said, ‘This is what you deserve, you’re co-leads, it’s only fair,’ and I thought: ‘You’re right, it’s fair’.”
This is not the first time Priyanka has discussed equal pay. “I have never had pay parity in Bollywood,” Priyanka said back in December. “I would be paid about 10% of my male co-star’s salary. (The wage difference) is large, significantly large. And so many women still deal with it. I’m sure I would too if I was working with a male co-actor now in Bollywood.”
Citadel will debut on Amazon Prime Video on April 28.