If, with equal notoriety, actresses always earn less than actors, there are exceptions confirming the rule. Elizabeth Taylor was thus the first to claim -in 1959- a million dollars for her role in Cleopatra, by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, breaking the salary records achieved by his male counterparts. In the end, she was to receive more than 6 million dollars. Closer to home, Scarlett Johansson sued Disney to obtain, in addition to her 20 million earned for her role in Black Widow, a compensation of 80 million dollars. What happens today comes more naturally to one of the lucky beneficiaries of a movie’s success. This last, Barbieis in the process of enriching its interpreter, Margot Robbie…
Women of the 2020s
Released just a month ago, between July 19 and 21, 2023, Barbie is the theatrical triumph of the summer. It has thus collected, so far, 526.3 million dollars in the United States and 657.3 million dollars internationally. This staggering success is first of all that of the Warner studios, distributors of the film, but also of the company Mattel, co-producer and manufacturer of Barbie dolls whose sales rebound promises to be spectacular. But, humanly, artistically and commercially speaking, it also raises to stratospheric degrees the rating of two women: the director of the film Greta Gerwig and its main interpreter, Margot Robbie. Gerwig is the first woman to have directed a film exceeding the billion dollar box office worldwide…
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Margot Robbie, star and producer
The jackpot, the interpreter of Barbie will touch it too. For the simple and good reason that Margot Robbie is both the star of the film but also one of the co-producers of this commercial triumph. As noted by the professional journal variety, Monday August 14, 2023, the actress should receive, by combining these two caps, the tidy sum of 50 million dollars. Real hen with golden eggs, Barbie, which was seen, in one month, by four million French people, will finally revive the business of the creation of Mattel. The firm says it is preparing no less than 14 films based on its brands. But doesn’t this run the risk of exhausting what, for many, already appears to be a vein? Response when outputting the “next Barbie“…