Demi Moore‘s record-breaking payday didn’t come with out some blowback from the general public.
The Golden Globe nominee not too long ago mirrored on the criticism round her risqué starring position in 1996’s Striptease, in addition to the controversy that got here together with her reported $12.5 million wage for the Andrew Bergman-helmed movie.
“Effectively, with Striptease, it was as if I had betrayed girls, and with G.I. Jane, it was as if I had betrayed males,” defined Moore on The New York Occasions‘ The Interview podcast. “However I feel the attention-grabbing piece is that after I turned the highest-paid actress — why is it that, at that second, the selection was to deliver me down? I don’t take this personally. I feel anybody who had been within the place that was the primary to get that sort of equality of pay would most likely have taken a success. However as a result of I did a movie that was coping with the world of stripping and the physique, I used to be extraordinarily shamed.”
She starred in Striptease as Erin Grant, a former FBI workplace assistant who takes a job dancing at a Miami strip membership out of desperation as she fights to win custody of her daughter again from her ex-husband. The darkish comedy additionally starred Burt Reynolds and Ving Rhames.
Moore was married to Bruce Willis on the time, and their daughter Rumer Willis appeared within the movie as her character’s daughter Angela. In the meantime, Bruce had turn out to be identified for his main roles in Die Exhausting (1988), Hudson Hawk (1991) and Pulp Fiction (1994).
Demi Moore in Striptease (1996).
“It wasn’t about evaluating myself to him,” she mentioned. “Sure, I noticed what he bought paid. It was actually extra about: ‘Why shouldn’t I? If I’m doing the identical quantity of labor, why shouldn’t I?’ And it’s no totally different than after I did the duvet for Vainness Truthful pregnant. I didn’t perceive why it was such an enormous deal, why girls once they had been pregnant wanted to be hidden? Why is it that we now have to disclaim that we had intercourse? That’s the worry, proper, that if you happen to present your stomach, which means, oh, my gosh, you’ve had intercourse.”
Striptease went on to earn $113 million globally however was panned by critics.
