Ellen Pompeo remembers asking for an anatomy of $ 20 million

Ellen Pompeo did not stay when there was a discussion of money during Her appearance of “calling her father”.

“At a very early age, I realized that people with money had too much, and I had no power as a young woman. I didn’t like how he felt,” Pompeo said, 55 years, on Wednesday 19th March, episode of podcasts. “I would watch people, all men who had a lot of money and a lot of strength. I looked at them and thought they were incredibly cool.”

Pompeo explained that because of her “intense” Boston education she spoke of “mafia boys” who were “really bad people” – but incredibly rich.

“They just had this command. That was like me, they had it. They had a position, they had money, they had too much,” the actress continued. “I compared the money with power very soon.”

Knowing how “liberation” was to have financial independence, there was something that Pompeo always held in the back of her mind.

“For women, financial freedom is real independence,” she said. “To be financially independent for me, what makes me the happiest, I feel the most free. I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do.”

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The details of her initial contract

“At some point I had a choice to complete the contract or stay. I was glad at age,” Oh, well, I will be 40 when my first contract is. “I better sign and take this money,” she recalled. “At that time, 20 years ago, women at the age of 40 are over. This is a wrap, gold.”

At that time, Pompeo thought it was “the most money” and “most of the opportunities” he would ever have.

Take advantage of the patriarchate to your advantage

Pompeo said that “he is not even mad” about climbing on any financial ladder next to a successful man.

“Go ahead, go next to it and use it to equalize. Just enter it and just come to terms. Do not stay under it,” she said. “Do what you have to do, girl. Use it, go next to it, choose your pockets and keep it in motion. It’s okay. I’m not angry with any woman who can do what she can get where she needs, just get there and keep it moving.”

Her story of “Gray’s anatomy”

The actress started her career in the movies, but when she had no “money”, Pompe’s agent convinced her to try to shoot a pilot show, which would allow her to “make a lot of money”.

Salary negotiating $ 20 million

News in 2018 disintegrated that Pompeo had negotiated a salary of $ 20 million for her Grey’s anatomy role. She did not need Talk to the show creator Short rhes Before asking for an increase – but he did it anyway.

“Being a woman, I think I’m conditional, make sure I don’t go on anyone’s fingers and I’m polite,” Pompeo recalled. “I asked the bustle first – she really doesn’t have much to do with the things, it’s business and anything – but I said to her,” I’m going inside and ask too much, are you fine? “Just because I don’t want to be disrespectful, I don’t want to go crazy and I want to let her know what moves because I respect her.”

Pompeo had data when he asked for money and noted that he would never ask for anything she wouldn’t work or deserve.

“I’m Disney Princess of the franchise. I have data to support (that), I know the show has generated so much money that I deserve a percentage,” she said. “I advocate women who always fight for themselves, because they are most likely underestimated compared to what they offer men.”

Reaction to money

Before the messages were published, Pompe’s manager asked, “Are you ready to be unpopular?”

That was something that had never been “never realized”, but he quickly realized “it’s true”. Pompeo said it was less who reached for the news and more of who didn’t.

“That day I got a lot of e -mails when the story came out of amazing people,” she said. “Then those who are silence, you know who’s not saying anything, and you see it, and you’re like okay. I don’t know what to say, hate players, hate the game.”

Go up against Patrick’s Dempsey

Pompeo spoke in detail about the request for the same money as her Grey’s anatomy Kostkar.

“There is nothing personal to him, but in general, only one can fail, can have 13 failed television pilots and their quotes are still rising. But in all justice, his quote was what it was, it was a bigger star than I am at that moment,” she explained. “No one knew who I was, everyone knew who it was. He deserved the money, I am not saying that he did not deserve the money. I was a name tag. I deserved the same thing and it was harder to get.”

She was “salty” that the net did not bring it in the same way.

Strength – and how the times change

“If you make a lot of money as a woman, let’s face it, do you have too much. So how can I take the power and do it well? How can I intensify someone else? How can I help someone else? She said. “F – What people think about me, who cares about me? You can’t control it. What can you do is to use your power for good.”

Elsewhere in the podcast, Pompeo also attributed how the entertainment industry changed.

“Women in this industry are so incredible because look at how far we came and every piece matters,” she said. “But we all push this giant boulder on the hill and got it to a really good place where I am here at the age of 55 – last month I just turned for 55 years – I get the second chapter.”