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In this ESSENCE Now interview, editor Danielle Kwateng-Clarks speaks with Queen Latifah about Mo’Nique’s recent remarks about the success of “Girls Trip” and how Black actresses aren’t paid enough for their work.
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00:00So recently, Monique's remarked on her podcast about the success of Girls Trip, saying that
00:10you and other stars should be millionaires because of it, and that black women in general
00:14are paid less than Hollywood.
00:16What are your thoughts on that?
00:18Well, we are.
00:19I mean, women are paid less, period.
00:21There's nothing different than what happens in the world.
00:23Women tend to be paid less than their male counterparts.
00:27So I do agree with her in that sense.
00:29You know, and it's just something we keep having to, we just have to keep fighting for.
00:34I think that we can always, we go hard.
00:38You know, my partner Shaquem and I, we don't just take what we're offered.
00:43You know, we always push it further, and we realize what our worth is.
00:46But I also realize that we can create these, we can create this content.
00:50If you really want to get paid, make it yourself and put it out and own it.
00:56That's always been our attitude.
00:57Own what we create, you know.
00:59So we don't have to just ask for a paycheck.
01:03But I think it's always something that needs to be pushed because with the success of Girls Trip,
01:07we're talking about a hundred million plus movie.
01:09We will see, we should see the benefit of a movie that makes that much money.
01:15Yeah.
01:15For sure.
01:16Yeah.
01:16But you keep pushing.
01:18You don't give up.
01:19You just keep pushing.
01:20Yeah, yeah.
01:21And of course we've talked about this on the site, but will there be a Girls Trip sequel?
01:26What's the deal?
01:26Girls, yeah.
01:29Yeah.
01:29You asking crazy questions now.
01:32What?
01:33No, we're waiting for it.
01:35We're just waiting for the word.
01:36Just waiting for that block in the schedule that we got to block out because it's definitely
01:40going to happen.
01:41Yeah.
01:41Okay.
01:41For sure.
01:41We can't wait.
01:42We can't wait to do it.
01:44We miss each other.
01:45We can't wait to get back together and just cut up for a couple months.
01:48I mean, people were laughing.
01:50I've seen it three times, but like people were laughing out loud.
01:53It's a laugh out loud movie.
01:55I mean, right off the bat, you know, and it doesn't stop to the end.
01:59So it's just a great movie and we want to do it again, even better.
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