Self The Last of Us constantly questioning the power relations between a patronizing man and a young woman, the real world remains firmly ruled by misogyny and age. Let us recall, if this term is regularly used to designate a form of exclusion and contempt towards seniorscan also be defined as general age discriminationof which young people are also victims.
Indeed, despite their equal importance in the series, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey would not be at all paid the same. On the contrary, we are still far from the mark…
Pedro Pascal is one of the highest paid actors in the serial scene
In a survey published by variety in 2021, we learned that Pedro Pascal has appeared on the very shortlist of highest paid series actors of the industry, along with names like Bryan Cranston (breaking Bad), Viola Davis (The first woman) or Brian Cox (Succession). The actor would thus have touched none other than $600,000 per episode of The Last of Uswhich is approximately $5,400,000 for all 9 episodes.
Indeed, Pedro Pascal is one of the most popular actors in the current television landscape. He has built a worldwide reputation, especially by embodying the main character of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Furthermore, his career seems to have a bright future ahead of it as The Last of Us season 2 has been confirmed and is already generating the excitement and impatience of fans (us included).
Different careers or ages and genders?
Despite the actor’s popularity, his salary causes heated debate as to whether he would be far greater than the amount Bella Ramsey pocketed on the set of the HBO series. This information should be taken with a grain of salt, as it hasn’t been officially confirmed, but many sources suggest the actress received a $70,000 per episode. In other words, Bella Ramsey would have been paid 8 times less than her playing partner.
It goes viral, a tweet from the media PopTingz reacted to Internet users, most of whom complained misogyny and ageism of this pay gap. As a reminder, Pedro Pascal has 48 years oldwhile Bella Ramsey has a few 19.
Other users have instead claimed that this difference was justified by the fact that Pedro Pascal had started his career in the early 2000s, even if at the time he mainly played small roles (we particularly remember his brief appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer), where Bella Ramsey’s began much more recently, in 2016.
One is tempted to retort that, although short, Bella Ramsey’s career is already prestigious since it was revealed game of Thrones. An argument sufficient to review his salary according to most egalitarian ?
Source: Madmoizelle
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