Actress/comedian and SNL star Leslie Jones revealed she was offered $67,000 to star in Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters,” a far cry from her co-star Melissa McCarthy who made $14 million.
The reveal comes from an excerpt in Rolling Stone of Jones’ new novel “Leslie F—ing Jones: A Memoir”. She says it was made clear to her during the process she was “lucky to even be on that movie”.
She had to fight to get more, and in the end got $150,000 for the film which had a budget of approximately $154 million. With that money though came the target on her back from racist and sexist trolls who targeted the movie.
Jones reveals she had to delete her Twitter account for 24 hours and was on the receiving end of so many heinous messages and attempts to hack her account that then-CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, personally got in touch so they could work together to protect her account.
She says Dorsey: “put people on my account to monitor it because someone is always trying to hack me.” She adds: “I can’t believe anyone would do this s— to someone, anyone, for working. This is awful. I am in a movie. Death threats for something as small as that?”
When filmmaker Jason Reitman said on Bill Burr’s Monday Morning podcast that his 2021 reboot “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” was trying to “hand the movie back to the fans,” Jones says the statement was an “unforgivable” dig at the 2016 movie.
Despite Reitman’s later attempts at clarification, Jones says: “The damage was done. Bringing up the idea of giving the movie ‘back to the fans’ was a pretty clear shout-out to all those losers who went after us for making an all-female film.”
Source: Variety
