Marisa Tomei Had To Ask Pete Davidson If He’s Been Paid For “The King Of Staten Island” Because She Has Not
I don’t know if Judd Apatow is so used to having his daughters in all his projects he forgot that some actors actually expect to get paid their work or what, but according to Marisa Tomei, she has yet to be paid for her role as Pete Davidson’s mom in 2020’s The King of Staten Island. In addition to being the writer and director, Judd’s production company, Apatow Productions, shares producing credit with Universal Pictures. In a new interview for Rolling Stone, Marisa was asked what it’s like working with Pete (and we’ll get to that in a bit, for now, I’ll just say Kim Kardashian should be on high alert), who she had just been talking to that day. Marisa told RS that she asked Pete if he’d been paid forTKOSI yet because she had not. She didn’t say whether or not he had, but I think we can all agree that SOMEBODY better run Marisa her damn check TODAY. And they need to add a couple of extra zeros on it for wasting her valuable time.
I haven’t seen the movie but judging from the trailer I just watched, it’s about a man-child who lives in his mother’s basement and smokes weed all day because he’s sad about his dead fireman dad. And Marisa plays the woman who has to pick up his dirty underwear from the floor. So not only is Marisa owed a check for her acting, she should also be getting some type of hazard pay. I hope there was a mask mandate on that set, even if it was filmed before the pandemic. Marisa said, via Rolling Stone:
I actually just was talking to Pete today, because I was like, “I never got paid for that. Did you? In this age of transparency, can we talk?” But despite that, I had a rollicking good time. [With director] Judd [Apatow]’s approach to improv — which is extensive — I was intimidated. I’m with all these stand-ups. It was so freeing. Really changed how I approach each character going forward.
I don’t pretend to know how the industry works, but I do know that when an Academy Award-winning national treasure agrees to be in your little straight to streaming movie, she ought to have a luxury trailer filled with flowers, thank you cards, and a giant stack of cold, hard cash sitting on top of a mini-fridge stocked with all her favorites. And still, professional that she is, Marisa had nothing but nice things to say about her co-star Pete.
He’s just so fucking real, and he’s unfiltered but very sensitive. So he’s almost an irresistible combination. And he’s good-looking, even though I played . . . let’s just put the mom thing aside. Let’s, like, never mention that again.
See what happens when you don’t pay women what they’re worth? It makes them INSANE.
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