[EdnaMode]

So the Daily Mail reported Fake News about Foy getting back pay? Imagine what else the media has gotten wrong.

[ZOOKER]

Think of the actors as people, not as the characters they portray, and you might see why the "prince" gets more than the "queen".

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...

[cymbeline]

I can’t get too worked up about pay frontpeople in the entertainment industry.

Also, Claire and the others were made an offer and accepted it. Ok she wasn’t paid as much as the other guy but was she paid well for her time, effort and skills.?

[dforest]

I bet that gal that played the Queen in The Naked Gun would work fairly cheap! Great Performance.

[Flaming Conservative]

It’s so Ortecio-Cortezish (or whatever her name is) to say everyone should get paid the same. Actors are paid according to their popularity. Smith is more popular than Foy. I seriously doubt she expected to get paid the same as he did, nor is upset about what she did receive. Because of the show, she now can demand more on her next job. Or next season, for that matter, not because Smith was making more, but because her value as an actor has increased.

[American Infidel]

Before production even began, she agreed to the role and to the compensation. Later on; she finds out that other actors were being paid more than she was, so now she wants more money. Well; why didn't she simply negotiate higher pay up front when she agreed to take the role?

When I was hired for my current job; HR asked me what I was looking for in terms of compensation. I gave them a figure that exceeded the compensation of the job I had at the time in order to make it worthwhile for me leave that job. If I find out later that some of my co-workers are getting paid better, then I did a poor job of negotiating. They gave me what I asked for in terms of compensation. The time to negotiate pay is at the beginning of the process.