How Robin became the first lady of equal pay

After complaining to her bosses, the actress robin Wright got equal pay on the Netflix hit House Of Cards. If only it was so easy for the rest of us! However, I had imagined the Hollywood star system worked in a much more complicated way.

for is robin, fine actress though she is, really as much of a draw or as well-known as her co- star Kevin Spacey (pictured with Wright)?

the pair played American president frank Underwood and his steely wife Claire. He was the Machiavellian plotter, she was the Lady Macbeth of the White House, with a killer wardrobe to match.

In a move Claire would approve of, Wright threatened studio bosses with going public unless they agreed to pay her the same money as Spacey.

‘It was the perfect paradigm. there are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch and the matriarch are equal. And they are in House Of Cards,’ she said. ‘I was like: “I want to be paid the same as Kevin.” ’

She believed Claire was the fiscal equal of frank — but surely it’s not just about the role you play, but the expertise, history and pulling power you bring to a project? No, says Wright, who added that her ‘salary bracket’ had gone down when she took a few years off to raise her children during her marriage to Sean Penn.

Good for her — even if I do think that robin’s character ruined the last series of House Of Cards.

She turned into a loony feminist who decided that being first Lady was not enough power — she wanted to be vice president, too. Along the way, she slept with the smuggest journalist in Washington, who loped about their private residence with his man bag and bad shoes as if he were part of the family.

It was just too far-fetched, like a president having an affair with an office junior and . . . oh.