Julie Delpy Demanded Equal Pay To Ethan Hawke On ‘Before Midnight’

By Shakiel Mahjouri. Published: 3 Oct 2019 2:28 PM

Julie Delpy has been battling pay disparity in Hollywood for a long time.

Delpy, 49, revealed to Variety at the Zurich Film Festival how she faced a similar challenge when shooting the “Before” trilogy. She received “maybe a tenth” of co-star Ethan Hawke’s pay for “Before Sunrise” and “half” of Hawke’s salary for “Before Sunset”.

By the third film “Before Midnight”, “I said, ‘Listen, guys, if I’m not paid the same, I’m not doing it.'”

Julie Delpy reveals that in #BeforeSunrise she was paid "maybe a tenth" of what Ethan Hawke was paid, in #BeforeSunset she was paid "half" and that for #BeforeMidnight, she demanded equal pay https://t.co/9jJoNgvRqE | Variety Lounge at #ZFF2019 presented by @creditsuisse pic.twitter.com/R0MlQP0KRU

— Variety (@Variety) October 3, 2019

Speaking of the “Before” franchise. Delpy quickly put to rest any thoughts of a fourth instalment.

“I think we’re done now with [it] but we went back to it every nine years,” she said. “It was an interesting study of a 20-year-old falling in love, a 30-year-old falling in love again, and then at early 40s how to sustain that love. It’s really about the relationship.”

Delpy is currently promoting the sci-fi family drama “My Zoe”.