Cenk Uygur
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House Of Cards Star Robin Wright Demands Equal Pay
Posted
May 19, 2016
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100,244
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May 19, 2016
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5:04Now PlayingHouse of Cards actress Robin Wright recently learned she was being paid less than her male co-star Kevin Spacey. She demanded equal pay, and got it. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"When the actress Robin Wright was negotiating a pay raise that would make her earnings for “House of Cards” equal to those of her co-star Kevin Spacey, she used a tactic that would’ve made her alter ego, Claire Underwood, proud: She leveraged her power by threatening to go public about pay inequality.
Ms. Wright, who plays a calculating first lady to Mr. Spacey’s equally ruthless President Frank Underwood on the Netflix drama, told the audience at a Rockefeller Foundation event in New York on Tuesday that she’d learned the two characters were equally popular with viewers.
“So I capitalized on it,” Ms. Wright told the room, according to The Huffington Post. “I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public.’ ”
“And they did.””*
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