Robin Wright is detailing how Netflix did her improper as an actress for “Home of Playing cards.” Wright co-starred alongside Kevin Spacey within the hit 2013 collection; she later took over because the lead star after Spacey was fired amid abuse allegations earlier than Season 6. “Home of Playing cards” concluded in 2018.
Wright advised Selection in the course of the Monte-Carlo Tv Competition that she needed to struggle to receives a commission the identical as Spacey. “Sure, it was tough. I’m going to be trustworthy,” she mentioned. “Once I mentioned, ‘I believe it’s solely truthful as a result of my character turned as well-liked as [Spacey’s], they mentioned, ‘We are able to’t pay you an identical as an actor, so we are going to make you exec producer and you’ll direct. We gives you three completely different paychecks.’ I requested, ‘Why can’t you pay me as an actor?’ ‘Since you didn’t win an Academy Award.’”
Spacey gained the Academy Award for “The Traditional Suspects” in 1995 and in addition “American Magnificence” in 2000.
Wright continued of her former co-star and the then-policy at Netflix, “That has been the protocol for years — it simply is. For those who say, ‘Why did so-and-so feminine not get the identical quantity as Will Smith?’ They are saying, ‘It would improve after you win.’ Nomination, not a lot. Why does it must do something with a elevate?”
Wright beforehand advised Marie Claire that she needed to “capitalize” on her character’s fandom to barter a elevate. “I used to be like, ‘I wish to be paid the identical as Kevin.’ It was the proper paradigm,” she mentioned. “There are only a few movies or TV reveals the place the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal, and they’re in ‘Home of Playing cards.’ I used to be wanting on the statistics and Claire Underwood’s character was extra well-liked than [Frank’s] for a time period. So I capitalized on it. I used to be like, ‘You higher pay me or I’m going to go public.’ They usually did.”
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings admitted that he doubted Ted Sarandos’ imaginative and prescient for “Home of Playing cards.” Hastings recalled to Selection that Sarandos advised director David Fincher that Netflix would decide to spending $100 million on the collection and greenlight it for 2 seasons earlier than a pilot had even been shot. Fincher additionally would have full inventive management of the present, with Netflix refraining from giving any notes.