Priyanka Chopra Jonas has come a long way from her days in India as a part of Bollywood. The 40-year-old actress started out in the US with her music video, ‘In My City’. She then starred in ABC’s television series ‘Quantico‘, which made her the first South Asian to headline an American show.
Chopra is now gearing up for the release of her Amazon Prime series ‘Citadel.’ In a recent interview, the ‘Baywatch‘ actress said that she experienced pay parity for the first time in her professional career. So let’s find out in detail what Chopra said about her struggles with equal pay in the industry.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas Talks About Receiving Equal Pay
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is one of the few to successfully transition from Bollywood to Hollywood. However, she has struggled with getting equal pay for her work.
On Friday, Chopra was in a conversation with Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke at the South by Southwest Film Festival. She revealed that she received her first equal pay for ‘Citadel‘ in 22 years.
“I might get into trouble for [saying this], depends on who’s watching,” she said. “I’ve been working in the entertainment industry for now 22 years, and I have done about almost 70-plus features and two TV shows.”
Jonas continued: “But when I did ‘Citadel’, it was the first time in my career that I had pay parity.” Produced by the Russo brothers, ‘Citadel‘ is an upcoming sci-fi action thriller starring Jonas and Richard Madden.
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The Actress Talked About Facing Body-Shaming
In the same interview, Priyanka Chopra Jonas also talked about being body-shamed by someone before the festival. “I’ve been told many things that are difficult to hear,” she said. “I arrive feeling crappy because somebody told me yesterday I wasn’t ‘sample sized.’
She said that she was really “hurt” and went home and “discussed it with my family and I cried to my husband and my team and I felt really bad about the fact I’m not sample-sized and that that’s a problem, apparently.”
The actress then said that most of us are not sample-sized. She also recently hosted the South Asian Excellence Pre-Oscars Celebration along with Anjula Acharia.
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