NEW YORK — Sienna Miller is looking back at putting self-respect center stage — though it didn’t get her very far at the time.
The “Anatomy of a Scandal” star, 40, told British Vogue in a new interview that she was once told to “f— off” by an “extremely powerful” Broadway producer when advocating for equal pay.
After being “offered less than half” of what her male counterpart would rack up for a weeklong Broadway stint in an unnamed play, Miller recalled telling the producer, also unnamed, “It’s not about money — it’s about fairness and respect.”
Though she assumed she’d get the pay increase with no problem, the producer wasn’t having it.
“They just said, ‘Well, f— off then,’” recalled Miller.
She “felt terrible about myself and embarrassed” in the wake of the incident she now views as a “pivotal moment,” the star said in the interview published Tuesday.
“I realized I had every right to be equally subsidized for the work that I would have done,” said Miller, whose “21 Bridges” paycheck came in part from co-star Chadwick Boseman’s own.
After praising the late “Black Panther” star’s overture as “extraordinary,” Miller said that Boseman later told her: “You got paid what you deserved.”
Actors in the generation behind her “have the word ‘no’ in their language in a way that I didn’t,” Miller said.
“[Now] if you say, ‘I don’t feel comfortable’ in front of any form of executive, they’re s—ing their pants. You’re included in a conversation about your level of comfort. It’s changed everything.”
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