«A producer told me ‘fuck you’ when I asked for equal pay for a film»

In a recent interview with British Vogue, Sienna Miller confessed that a producer sent her off after the actress asked to be paid as much as her co-star. The star was simply asking for equal pay for a Broadway production but she claimed she was being “offered less than half” of what her fellow actor was being offered. During the interview, Miller did not want to name the name of the project but thus recounted what happened: «I told the producer, who was extremely powerful, that it wasn’t about money, but about equity and respect, thinking they would come back and they would say, ‘Sure, sure.’ But they didn’t. They just told me: ‘Fuck you then’».

After what happened, Sienna Miller she revealed: «I felt terrible about myself and embarrassed but in the end it was a “crucial moment”. I realized that I had every right to be paid equally for the work I would do. Now, actors, who are 10 years younger than me, have the word ‘no’ in their vocabulary in a way that I didn’t have before. Now if you say, “I don’t feel comfortable” in front of any executive, they are afraid. You are included in a conversation about your comfort level. Everything is changing.”

In the past, Miller has also had to contend with unequal pay while making 21 Bridges, the 2019 crime thriller in which she starred opposite Chadwick Boseman. After Boseman’s death in 2020, Miller revealed that Boseman reallocated part of her salary to ensure she was paid fairly: “She told me, ‘What you did was extraordinary and it meant the world.’ She came to me when we finished and she said, ‘You got paid what you deserved.’