PAUL NEWMAN ONCE GAVE SUSAN SARANDON PART OF HIS SALARY TO ENSURE EQUAL PAY
The actress told BBC 5 that the late actor once took a pay cut when she found out she was making less than her male costars. “Emma Stone once came forward and said she got equal pay, because her male stars insisted upon it and gave up something of theirs. That happened to me with Paul Newman at one point, when I did a film with him ages ago,” she said, likely referring to the 1998 film Twilight also starring Gene Hackman.
She continued, “They said it was ‘favored nations,’ but they only meant the two guys. He stepped forward and said, ‘Well I’ll give you part of mine,’ So, yeah, he was a gem.”