Smith appears to be older than Foy, with a bigger resume and more acting experience ( he was Dr. Who for a while).
OTOH, it's the star that draws the crowd so maybe Claire should get the biggest check. Did Fonzie get paid more than Richie Cunningham?
Maybe they should pay actors by the line, or by the actual number of minutes they appear on screen? Seems I remember Harrison Ford getting $30M for being killed off early into a Star Wars movie.
Maybe it's just who has the best agent...
Good point. I was drawn to watch the show, not because of Claire Foy or any number of the capable actors but because like any good Whovian, I wanted to see Matt Smith in something he’s done since Dr. Who. If he hadn’t been in it, I doubt very much I’d have watched the show once, let alone twice.
Truth be told - and this is in just about any industry - experience reigns. More/better experience = higher pay, regardless of sex. I thought that’s why we work harder to get valuable experience so we could earn a bigger paycheck. Gender/sex should be irrelevant. If we’re to be paid the same as someone with lesser or negligible experience, what’s the point in working so hard?
These people need to fire their agents and get someone who can negotiate a better deal for their clients. I had never heard of Claire Foy before but I had heard of Matt Smith. These whiny women need to grow up and learn how the business works. She’s no Meryl Streep or Scarlet Johannsen, or Sandra Bullock. (None of whom I like.) What blockbuster has Foy ever been in that she believes she deserves to earn as much as her coworkers and would she be willing to earn less so that some of her subordinates could earn more?
Prior to her work on The Crown, she played Anne Boelyn in the PBS series, Wolf Hall. Also, she was really carrying the most weight, in terms of being the title role in the piece, so she really should have been paid, at least, the same as Matt Smith, if not more.