Barbra Streisand was 'hurt' to discover huge pay difference on Meet The Fockers

06 November 2023 , 16:52

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Barbra Streisand will address the Meet The Fockers pay gap in her new memoir

Barbra Streisand's tell-all memoir, My Name Is Barbra, is set to spill the singer and actress' deepest thoughts when it hits bookshelves tomorrow upon its release.

In a newly shared extract, the 81-year-old Hollywood icon fumes over the pay discrepancies behind the scenes of the Meet the Fockers franchise. Touching upon the pay she received compared to her male counterparts, Barbra said it was the first time she felt the effect of "Hollywood's unequal pay scale".

Meet the Fockers is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Jay Roach and the sequel to the 2000 film Meet the Parents. The movie stars a whole host of famous faces, including Barbra who takes on the role of Rozalin Focker.

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Also starring in the movie were the likes of Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Blythe Danner, and Teri Polo. The movie grossed an eyewatering $522 million worldwide and was then followed by a sequel titled Little Fockers in 2010.

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Writing about her stint in the movie and the unequal pay she experienced behind-the-scenes, Barbra addresses it all in her new memoir. According to People Magazine, who has published new extracts from her book, Barbra writes: "On a side note, this was the first time I felt the effect of Hollywood’s unequal pay scale for men and women.

"I didn’t ask what the other actors were making, but I was definitely hurt when I found out that Dustin was getting three times as much as me, plus a tiny percentage, which is significant on a movie that made $520 million."

Speaking about the "excuse" she was given, Barbra said that she was told that she was "the last to sign", hence her smaller pay packet. She then writes in the book: "But the only thing that made me feel better was when my dear friend Ron Meyer, who was the head of Universal, gave me a bonus . . . the first and only time I ever got one. I guess he, too, thought it was unfair."

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