Marisa Tomei recently claimed she has yet to be paid for her role in the 2020 comedy The King of Staten Island, but a source close to Pete Davidson, co-writer and star of the film, says the Oscar-winner was paid before production. even started.
“Marisa Tomei received 100% payment for the film. In fact, she was paid over a million dollars upfront,” a source familiar with the situation told Page Six. She is clearly confused.
Tomei, 57, said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine that she had to turn to the 28-year-old Saturday Night Live star to ask about her pay cut for the film, a semi-autobiography of his life after the loss. father, firefighter Scott Davidson, September 11, 2001. The actress played his mother in the film.
“I actually just talked to Pete today because I was like, ‘I never got paid for this. And you?”, — said the actress of the movie “Spider-Man: No Home”. “Can we talk in this age of transparency?”
She continued, “But despite that, I had a great time. [With director] Judd [Apatow’s] approach to improvisation – some kind of extensive – scared me. Me with all these stand-ups [comics]. It was so liberating. It really changed my approach to each character in the future.”
Tomei went on to praise Davidson for being “so damn real, unfiltered yet very sensitive”.
“So he’s an almost irresistible combination. And he’s cute even though I played… let’s just put that mom aside. Let’s never mention it again,” she joked.