“after I was negotiating my deal for ‘Madam C.J.,’ LeBron James needed to intervene.”
Academy Award successful actress Octa Spencer not too long ago spoke at a panel on the Sundance Movie Competition, the place she revealed that Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James helped her earn equal pay on a Netflix collection.
Spencer, who labored alongside LeBron on a biopic about Madam C.J. Walker (America’s first black self-made millionaire), described how the four-time NBA MVP stepped in to make sure she acquired a good deal in comparison with male solid members.
“I’ve to say, after I was negotiating my deal for ‘Madam C.J.,’ LeBron James needed to intervene,” Spencer stated in the course of the panel (H/T TMZ Sports). She added, “We’d like all our male counterparts to be within the struggle with us.”
Final Fall, LeBron spoke out about the wage hole between women and men, particularly African American ladies, and used the backlash acquired by Serena Williams finally yr’ U.S. Open for example.
He advised Marisa Guthrie the Hollywood Reporter (H/T Bleacher Report):
“What all of us have to grasp is what she is combating for is larger than simply that match,” he stated. “She is combating for equality—at all times having to win extra, extra, extra, simply to really feel equal. Being an African American girl enjoying in a predominantly white sport, she’s coping with a lot extra. I do not know what was happening in her head, however I really feel that battle.”