Claudia Black is opening up about her exit from Ahsoka.
The 53-year-old actress spoke out about departing the Star Wars series, in which she played Nightsister Klothow.
Claudia explained more about her decision, due to both pay and the industry at large.
Keep reading to find out more…
In an interview, she spoke about the first season of the Disney+ series.
“Disney, which is structuring things differently these days, could not pay me what I needed to be paid as a single mother to keep all my responsibilities going at home in Los Angeles, because they were filming in London,” she revealed to Bleeding Cool.
She further elaborated in a conversation with THR.
“When I did the first season, people assumed that I’m making hundreds of thousands of dollars. It could not be further from the truth on a role like this,. [My pay was] closer to what I was earning when I was 19 or in my early 20s,” she admitted.
“I have heard people who work in corporations, not necessarily Disney, but all these bigger corporations, they have spoken in rooms about how lucky the actors should be to be part of a successful franchise, and that they will take it for the screen credit and they will take it for a bit of money, and then hopefully that will bring them further work, but that they should be lucky. The issue I have is when that comes to women, other people who were able to say yes to this job didn’t have the same responsibilities, and that thinking is not designed around how much invisible work women do in a household.”
She went on to say that she has a “great community” and an “amazing life.”
“It’s just something needs to change and this needs to be discussed, and I knew the risks and I think there’s more power in me stepping back, because I’m not desperate and there’s more power in me talking about it even though there’s so little job security and there’s so little psychological safety in these spaces when women do speak up.,” she went on to say.
“It’s a difficult situation and the industry is fragile because if you push too hard, nothing gets made,” she went on. For more, head to THR.com.
Find out who is coming back for Season 2 of Ahsoka.
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