Taraji is one of many Black actors who are fed up with being underpaid in Hollywood
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00:00 I'm just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, getting paid a fraction of the
00:11 cost.
00:13 I'm tired of hearing my sister say the same thing over and over.
00:19 You get tired.
00:20 I hear people go, "You work a lot!"
00:22 I have to.
00:24 The math ain't math.
00:26 And when you start working a lot, you have a team.
00:31 Big bills come with what we do.
00:33 We don't do this alone.
00:35 The fact that we're up here, there's a whole entire team behind us.
00:39 They have to get paid.
00:40 So when you hear someone saying, "Oh, such and such made $10 million."
00:44 No, that didn't make it to their account.
00:46 Know that off the top, Uncle Sam is getting 50%.
00:51 So do the math.
00:53 Now we have $5 million.
00:54 Your team is getting 30% or whatever your team is getting off of what you grossed.
00:59 Not after what Uncle Sam took.
01:01 Now do the math.
01:03 So I'm only human and it seems every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling,
01:12 when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again like I never did what I just
01:16 did and I'm just tired.
01:18 I'm tired.