Clare Foy is glad that her battle over pay for The Crown has paid off for different feminine actors.
The British star of the primary two collection of the Netflix big-budget drama was famously enraged on the invention that, regardless of holding the crown of the title in her lead function of a younger Elizabeth II, she was being paid lower than her co-star Matt Smith, who performed a younger Prince Philip.
When this discrepancy got here to gentle, the present’s producers Left Bank Pictures defined it all the way down to Smith’s greater profile coming into the present. However, as Foy emerged the breakout star of the drama – securing a Golden Globe and two Emmy awards for her work – they pledged this could not occur once more on the manufacturing.
This weekend, Foy informed The Times newspaper she realised she had made a distinction throughout the business. “The distinction is, as the feminine actor, you’re going to get informed you get parity.
“I’ve had people come up to me and say that they’ve been paid equal because of it. The industry will always try to keep as much at the top as humanly possible but the capacity to keep it all under lock and key is gone.”
Foy will subsequent seem within the movie All of Us Strangers, co-starring Andrew Scott and Oscar nominee Paul Mescal. Of her function in The Crown, through which she has been broadly regarded one of the best of the three Queen Elizabeths on display screen, she informed The Times that her favorite scenes had been these non-public ones between the Queen and her husband, solely invented by present runner Peter Morgan. She mentioned: “You’re constantly trying to find them and it gets to the end and you suddenly go, ‘I’m comfortable in this person’s shoes now.’ We were trying to understand what was happening behind closed doors. That was what Matt [Smith] and I always enjoyed the most — the bedtime scenes.”