Hyderabad:Priyanka Chopra was both surprised and emotional over getting paid equally with Richard Madden, her male co-star on the television series Citadel. The actor announced earlier this year that, after 20 years in the entertainment industry, she was now receiving equal compensation for all of her projects, starting with Citadel, a web series from Prime Video. The actor admitted that she was initially taken aback by the news that she would be paid equally with her male co-star Richard Madden on Citadel, but afterwards, as it gradually sank in, she felt moved.
She continued by saying that she had stopped thinking about it because she had initially dismissed the possibility of it occurring in her lifetime. "I was kind of extremely surprised, to be honest, because I had given up thinking or talking about it," Priyanka remarked in an interview. "The difference between what my male co-actors would receive and what I would receive, even if I were a co-lead, was just so great and different, I never even imagined it would happen in my lifetime," she added.
"My UTA agents said they wanted to try again to negotiate on my behalf and see if that was possible. After it was agreed, I pondered at the time if it was because Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon Studios at the time, was a woman," the actor added.