Marisa Tomei reveals that she has not yet received payment for her role in Pete Davidson’s “King of Staten Island” two years after its release
Marisa Tomei claims that she did not receive payment for her role in the film about the King of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone on Thursday, the 57-year-old actress said she turned to her colleague Pete Davidson, 28 – who also co-wrote the screenplay with Apatow and Dave Cyrus – to see if he received his salary. . The film was shot in 2019 and released in 2020.
In fact, I just talked to Pete today because I said to myself, “I was never paid for it. Right? In this age of transparency, can we talk? ”She said.
In anticipation of the salary: 57-year-old Marisa Tomei claims that she did not receive a salary for her role in the film Judd Apatow, King of Staten Island; Pictured on December 13, 2021 at the premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home in Los Angeles
Despite the financial problem, the star of Spider-Man: No Way Home is happy that she had a great time on the set of the film.
“I had a great time. [With director] Judd [Apatow]I was scared of the improvisational approach – which is extensive. I’m with all these standups. It was so liberating. [It] it really changed the way I approach each character in the future, ”she explained.
The King of Staten Island was released in 2020 and is a semi-biographical look at Davidson’s life and how he and his mother Amy Waters Davidson coped with their father’s death.
The late father of Saturday Night Live star Scott Davidson was a New York firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when Pete was just seven years old.
Co-stars: The actress said she turned to her colleague Pete Davidson, 28, saying: “I was never paid for it. You? In this age of transparency, can we talk?
In the film, Tomei portrays Davidson’s mother, a process she previously talked about with Screen Rant in June 2020.
“For me, I didn’t really want to do something like that. Indeed, I respect her and actually adore her. She is one of the most patient, kind [people and] he laughs a lot. She’s just a great person, but I didn’t want to go into her [head or] try to be her.
Meanwhile, Davidson talked about how the film helped him “just really expose everything and be able to heal and move on, instead of feeling sorry for myself every day.”
In an interview with the New York Times in June 2020, he revealed: “It was really difficult because I would share this with my therapist. But Judd really cared, and the hard work he did to find out about my life made me feel so comfortable.
Based on Pete’s Life: The film was released in 2020 and is based on how Pete and his mother Amy Waters Davidson coped with his father’s death.