Star "Card House" Robin Wright called a fee with colleague Kevin Spacey

Often, the ladies who work at the Dream Factory, have to win their right to equal pay with men. Sexism? Exactly! Someone prefers to keep silent, for fear of losing the contract, some say aloud about this problem, sometimes even judge, or go for "delicate blackmail." This is what the former wife of Sean Penn, blond beauty Robin Wright did.

Literally the other day, quite curious details of Ms. Wright's work on the creation of Netflix streaming service - the political drama "House of cards" became known. It turns out the star of "Santa Barbara" and "Forrest Gump", literally threatened the authors of this super-popular series with a public appearance, in the event that she does not receive a fee commensurate with the reward of Kevin Spacey!

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Recall that in the "House of Cards" Robin plays the role of the wife of the President of the United States. Before claiming her rights to pay increases, the actress analyzed the statistics and found out that her character Claire Underwood enjoyed no less popularity than the hero of Spacey - Frank Underwood. Statistics are a stubborn thing.

In fact, the heroine of the actress appears in the film on an equal footing with her husband. But at the same time she was paid an order of magnitude less than Spacey. In the case of the resourceful Wright, her demands were met without litigation. Obviously, the actress really has such information, which should not be made public.

Let's notice, that besides a leading role, in this serial Robin Wright plays a role of the producer and the director.