"The Crown" star Claire Foy has dismissed reports that she received USD 275,000 in back-pay for her role as Queen Elizabeth II after it was revealed that she was paid less than her co-star Matt Smith on the show.
The Netflix show, which is currently in its third season and has a different set of actors playing the royals, attracted severe criticism for the pay disparity between Smith and Foy.
Some reports later suggested that the producers had rectified it but Foy said she did not receive any back-pay.
"That was what was reported, that I was back-paid," the Golden Globe-winning actress told Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya.
"I've never mentioned anything about it and neither have the producers. The fact that that is 'fact' is not quite correct."
"It happened at the same time as it was coming out with a lot of other people that there was a lot of pay inequality across the board in the music industry, in journalism, in every industry. It's across the board that it became part of a bigger conversation, which is an odd place to find yourself in."
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