Hollywood is still operating under a flawed system.
that she quit the blockbuster rom-com’s back-to-back sequels after she was offered around $110,000 compared to male screenwriter Peter Chiarelli’s $800,000 to $1 million salary. director Jon M. Chu on Monday night is now furthering the conversation. “You bet your ass I stand with Adele,” Chu said. “I agree with Adele that parity for women and people of color is crucial to the continued enlightenment of our industry, and we still have a long way to go.
Chu went on to explain that he and Warner Brothers unsuccessfully attempted to salvage their working relationship with Lim: “When I discovered she was unhappy with the initial offer, the producers, myself, and studio executives leapt to action to ensure we got to a place of parity between the two writers at a significant number.... Unfortunately by the time we came up with several different ways to satisfy everyone’s needs, a lot of time had passed and she declined the offer.
Because, yes, the particular racial and gender dynamics of Lim’s situation are all too telling. Consider that Lim, who was born in Malaysia and is of Chinese descent, was brought in to rewrite and infuse Chiarelli’s—a white man’s—originalscript with authenticity and perspective. “There was already a great script written by Peter Chiarelli when I came on. But Jon, to his credit, knew that he had a female protagonist and he wanted a female point of view,” Limlast year.
And yet in the eyes of Warner Brothers, the real-life experience of an Asian woman was, at least initially, valued less than a white man’s work experience, as the studio reportedly cited industry standard ranges based on résumé. Chiarelli is a rom-com film writer , and Lim’s screenwriting career is primarily in television (
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