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How — how different was it? like, i would get paid about...10% of my male co—actor. wow. that's large, substantially large. and so many girls still deal with that. and i'm sure i will too if i worked with a male co—actor now in bollywood. so, that was my next question — has it changed at all or is it changing? it's changing, but i don't think it's changed. i think even if i do that now, if i worked in a movie with a main co—actor as a co—lead — i mean, i'll let you know when i do a movie like that because i'm going to do that as a social experiment! but i don't think i would get ...

But as i grew up, i saw that i'm actually a lucky one, that, you know, yeah, sure, ifaced racism, people called me names or, you know, said mean things to me, but people around world get killed for it, for the colour of their skin, and i count myself as the lucky one, part of the lucky few that are able to stand up for themselves and have a voice for themselves. you've also been very vocal about the pay gap, and let's talk about that for both the industries that you're a part of, but let's start with bollywood. what's been your experience of that? well, i've never had pay parity in bollywood. ...

What's been your experience of that? well, i've never had pay parity in bollywood. i've done 60—something movies, i think, but i've never got paid the same as my male co—actor. ijust about — after 22 years of working, now finally in my show citadel, finally had that, but that took 22 years! when you say you didn't have pay parity, i mean, how — how different was it? like, i would get paid about...10% of my male co—actor. wow. that's large, substantially large. and so many girls still deal with that. and i'm sure i will too if i worked with a male co—actor now in bollywood. so, that...

I'll let you know when i do a movie like that because i'm going to do that as a social experiment! but i don't think i would get the same remuneration as a male co—actor. and is hollywood any different? well, it's the first time it's happened to me, has happened in hollywood, so i don't know going forward, because this was my first show with someone as a co—lead in hollywood — after ten years of working in hollywood, i'm finally doing lead parts. it took a really, really long time, a lot of pavement pounding to be able to say, to be able to get roles that, in a mainstream way, and i alwa...

Equity on light skin, and of course that comes from our colonial past, it comes from, you know... it's not even been 100 years that we've shared the british raj. so we still hold onto, i think, what we were made to feel subliminally, and it is up to us and our generation to be able to cut those ties and change it for the next generation so that they don't inherit the equity on light skin, they don't inherit the gender equality that we probably thought was normal. i thought it was completely normal and absolutely 0k to sit for hours and hours on set while my male co—actor just took his own ti...