Netflix’s Grace and Frankie leads Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have publicly expressed disappointment that their male supporting cast members make the same amount of money as they do, which has spurred a petition.
At a press conference recently, they didn’t hide their qualms about what some are calling gender pay discrimination.
“[Tomlin] found out [Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen] are getting the same salary that we are. That doesn’t make us happy,” Fonda said, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Waterston and Martin Sheen play Sol and Robert, their ex-husbands who left them for each other.
Tomlin agreed, pointing out their characters, Grace and Frankie, are the leads. “The show is not Sol and Robert — it’s Grace and Frankie.”
The Care2 petition has almost reached the goal of 9,000 signatures. It was started by the director of acquisition and retention at Care2, Emily Logan.
Logan told THR, "Once the petition has a nice critical mass of signatures, I will download the signatures and send them off to the targets -- the executive producers of the show as well as the VP of original programming at Netflix.”
Grace and Frankie has been picked up for a second season.
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