If you thought Claire Underwood couldn’t get any cooler, then look no further than the woman who plays her.
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According to a Huffington Post report, Robin Wright recently revealed that she demanded a pay increase to match the salary of her male co-star Kevin Spacey in their hit Netflix series “House of Cards”;.
Not only has Wright appeared in all 52 episodes of the political thriller, she has also directed numerous episodes, and jumped on as executive producer for the most recent season.
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“I was like, “I want to be paid the same as Kevin,'”; revealed Wright during a Tuesday night panel at the Rockefeller Center.
“It was the perfect paradigm,”; she added. “There are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in “House of Cards”;.”;
Watch Wright’s full statement in the video below.
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Like Claire Underwood, Wright is no stranger to using leverage to get her way.
“I was looking at statistics and Claire Underwood’s character was more popular than [Frank’s] for a period of time,”; explained the 50-year-old actress. “So I capitalized on it. I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public’ And they did.”
