{"id":28985,"date":"2022-12-07T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28985"},"modified":"2022-12-07T05:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:33:45","slug":"priyanka-chopra-jonas-on-bollywood-id-earn-10-of-my-male-co-actors-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28985","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra Jonas on Bollywood: &#8216;I\u2019d earn 10% of my male co-actor\u2019s salary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC Newsd:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas tells BBC 100 Women that she received equal pay to her male co-actor for the first time in her 22-year career for her role in a forthcoming US spy series, Citadel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a hugely successful star in India and has acted in more than 60 Bollywood movies. About a decade ago she made a foray into Hollywood and is now one of the few Indian actors to make a mark for themselves in the US entertainment industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary of my male co-actor&#8221;, said Ms Chopra Jonas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It [the pay gap] is large, substantially large. And so many women still deal with that. I&#8217;m sure I will too if I worked with a male co-actor now in Bollywood,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My generation of female actors have definitely asked [for equal pay]. We&#8217;ve asked, but we&#8217;ve not got it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking after having been named on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-75af095e-21f7-41b0-9c5f-a96a5e0615c1\">BBC 100 Women<\/a> list for 2022, Ms Chopra Jonas recounted how as a young actor in the Indian film industry she accepted deep rooted patriarchy as &#8220;normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;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,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Newsd: Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas tells BBC 100 Women that she received equal pay to her male co-actor for the first time in her 22-year career for her role in a forthcoming US spy series, Citadel. She is a hugely successful star in India and has acted in more than 60 Bollywood movies. About a decade ago she made a foray into Hollywood and is now one of the few Indian actors to make a mark for themselves in the US entertainment industry. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never had pay parity in Bollywood. I would get paid about 10% of the salary&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28987,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions\/28987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}