Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in “The Jurassic World”
Equal pay has been a controversial topic in Hollywood for a few years. Many actresses have complained that their castmates often earn more than they do, without further logical explanation. Bryce Dallas Howard’s testimony has now been addedwho said exactly this happened to him in the movies of Jurassic world.
In 2018, for example, Variety trade magazine pointed out that it had received $ 8 million for Jurassic world: fallen kingdomwhile his colleague Chris Pratt had received 10 million. A monetary difference of 2 millionwhich will be repeated in the third installment of the saga, domainreleased this year.
According to Howard, that information is false and he recently told Insider magazine that he was being paid “far less” than he was. And he explained the topic in more detail.
Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in “The Jurassic World”
“Everything that has been published – he said – has been very interesting and curious, why they actually paid me a lot less than they said, a lot less. You have to remember that I started negotiating the contract with Jurassic world in 2014 and it was a different world, so I was at a huge disadvantage. And unfortunately I had to sign up for three films, so the amounts are fixed. “
The great gesture of Chris Pratt
The daughter of famous director Ron Howard (A brilliant mind, The Da Vinci Code) further clarified that his partner and co-star Pratt gave him his full support and he did everything in his power to win the same on all additional contracts for things that were not covered in the first deal.
Bryce Dallas Howard at the 2017 Hollywood SAG Screen Actors Guild Award. Photo: AP
“I have to say,” he said, “that Chris and I talked about it a lot and whenever there was an opportunity to change things that weren’t already negotiated, like a video game or some attraction in a theme park,” he literally said to me: ‘You don’t have to do anything, because I will do all the negotiations and in these new issues they will pay us the same, Bryce’ “.
“I love him so much for doing it and for having those gestures and principles!” Added the actress who played Claire Dearing in the saga.
The main characters of Jurassic World: Dominion. Jeff Goldblum as Dr Ian Malcolm, Sam Neill as Dr Alan Grant, Laura Dern as Dr Ellie Sattler, Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing, Chris Pratt as Owen Grady, Isabella Sermon as Maisie Lockwood and DeWanda Wise as Kayla Watts. Photo: EFE
The saga and its box office
Bryce Dallas Howard, 41, and Chris Pratt, 43, joined forces for the first time in 2015 in the film Jurassic worldwhich marked the reboot of the popular dinosaur franchise.
After the overwhelming success at the box office, they reunited again in 2018 with Jurassic world: fallen kingdom and in 2022 with Jurassic world. domainthe third and final installment of the franchise.
Jurassic world It was released on June 10, 2015 in 60 countries and broke an all-time high of $ 500 million in earnings on its first weekend. By the end of its theatrical run, the film had amassed more than $ 1.6 billion, making it the seventh highest-grossing film in cinema history (behind Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Avengers: Infinity War Y Spider-Man: No Way ManAnd).
Jurassic world: fallen kingdomo grossed over $ 1 billion worldwide, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 2018 and the fifteenth highest-grossing film of all time.
As for Dominion, in the United States and Canada it is estimated that it ended up grossing $ 543 million in 4,600 theaters. Adding the rest of the world, it grossed $ 900 million.
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Source: Clarin
