Demi Moore Recalls Getting “Extremely Shamed” Over $12.5M ‘Striptease’ Pay
deadline.comDemi Moore‘s record-breaking payday didn’t come without some blowback from the public. The Golden Globe nominee recently reflected on the criticism around her risqué starring role in 1996’s Striptease, as well as the controversy that came with her reported $12.5 million salary for the Andrew Bergman-helmed film. “Well, with Striptease, it was as if I had betrayed women, and with G.I.
Jane, it was as if I had betrayed men,” explained Moore on The New York Times‘ The Interview podcast. “But I think the interesting piece is that when I became the highest-paid actress — why is it that, at that moment, the choice was to bring me down?
I don’t take this personally. I think anyone who had been in the position that was the first to get that kind of equality of pay would probably have taken a hit.
But because I did a film that was dealing with the world of stripping and the body, I was extremely shamed.” She starred in Striptease as Erin Grant, a former FBI office assistant who takes a job dancing at a Miami strip club out of desperation as she fights to win custody of her daughter back from her ex-husband.
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