{"id":117875,"date":"2024-01-07T05:54:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T05:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/they-gave-us-rental-cars-deadline\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T05:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T05:54:25","slug":"they-gave-us-rental-cars-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/they-gave-us-rental-cars-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey Gave Us Rental Cars\u201d \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taraji-p-henson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taraji-p-henson\" data-tag=\"taraji-p-henson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taraji P. Henson<\/a> is opening up about her time filming <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-color-purple\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-color-purple\" data-tag=\"the-color-purple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Color Purple<\/a><\/em> and is criticizing that manufacturing had the forged drive themselves to the set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a brand new interview, the Empire alum revealed that producers of the movie gave the forged rental automobiles to take themselves to the set of the manufacturing. However, Henson mentioned she fought to get a driver because of it being an \u201cinsurance liability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThey gave us rental cars, and I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t drive myself to set in Atlanta.\u2019 This is insurance liability, it\u2019s dangerous. Now they robbing people,\u201d Henson recalled throughout an interview with <em>The New York Times<\/em>. \u201cWhat do I look like, taking myself to work by myself in a rental car? So I was like, \u2018Can I get a driver or security to take me?\u2019 I\u2019m not asking for the moon. They\u2019re like, \u2018Well, if we do it for you, we got to do it for everybody.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe continued, \u201cWell, do it for everybody! It\u2019s stuff like that, stuff I shouldn\u2019t have to fight for. I was on the set of <em>Empire<\/em> fighting for trailers that wasn\u2019t infested with bugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHenson famous that these conditions put on on her soul \u201cbecause\u00a0you fight so hard to establish a name for yourself and be respected in this town to no avail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWith Black films, they just don\u2019t want to take us overseas and I don\u2019t understand that,\u201d she added. \u201cBlack translates all over the world, so why wouldn\u2019t the movies? I have a following in China of all places. Y\u2019all not going to capitalize on that? Don\u2019t everybody want to make money here? I\u2019m not the person that pulls the race card every time, but what else is it, then? Tell me. I\u2019d rather it not be race, please give me something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHenson has been speaking in regards to the disparity that exists in Hollywood and in the course of the press tour for <em>The Color Purple<\/em>, she <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/12\/taraji-p-henson-breaks-down-in-tears-pay-disparity-hollywood-1235678936\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke down in tears over the pay discrepancies<\/a> regardless of her lengthy and established profession within the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, getting paid a fraction of the cost,\u201d Henson mentioned after taking a protracted pause and breaking down throughout an interview with Gayle King on SiriusXM. \u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get tired. I hear people go, \u2018You work a lot.\u2019 I have to. The math ain\u2019t math-ing. And you start working a lot, you have a team. Big bills come with what we do. We don\u2019t do this alone. It\u2019s a whole team behind us. They have to get paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Taraji P. Henson is opening up about her time filming The Color Purple and is criticizing that manufacturing had the forged drive themselves to the set. In a brand new interview, the Empire alum revealed that producers of the movie gave the forged rental automobiles to take themselves to the set of the manufacturing. 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