A miracle if salaries reach twin peaks, says Roth
ACTOR Tim Roth has criticised the BBC’s move to reveal salaries of its highest earning employees – and urged them to increase female pay.
But the Twin Peaks star warned it would be “a miracle” if pay rose to match up instead of levelling down.
Roth, 56, said: “My feeling is that an organisation like the BBC – any corporation – watch out they don’t drop the rate down to the women’s level. Watch out for that, because that’s bulls**t.
“Raise them to the men’s level and then we can talk – because that’s what they need to do. If you have a disparity like that, everyone should travel first class, that’s what my father used to say.
“The BBC are going to have an issue, they are definitely going to have an issue if they don’t pay people. People will just go and work over there [in America]. It’s a publicly funded organisation, it would be an easy out for them to drop the wages and you would have parity but it’s about time women got a raise. I‘d love to see them do that. That would be a miracle.”
Roth spoke at a launch for Sky Atlantic show Tin Star.