Leslie Jones recalled her experience with the all-female team Ghostbusters remake and the racist hate he faced after starring in it.
The 56 year old man Saturday night live The student shared the screen in the ghostly remake with Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig.
She reflected on the experience in an exception to her upcoming memoir. Leslie F-cking Jones: A Memoirwhich was published by Rolling Stone.
In the segment, Leslie addressed the small amount she was offered for the role, the things she learned from her co-stars, and the horrible hate she received on social media.
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Leslie wrote that she was initially offered $67,000 for her role in the film, adding that she was able to “fight” to increase her salary to $150,000. She was still “a lot less” than what Melissa and Kristen were offered. It’s not immediately clear how much her co-stars were paid, but Cosmopolitan reported that Melissa earned at least $10 million.
“The message was clear: ‘This is going to make you explode; after this, you’re made for life,’ all that kind of shit, as if he hadn’t had decades of a successful career. And in the end, all it gave me was heartache and a lot of controversy,” Leslie wrote about the offer.
Even though she was paid less, Leslie said she was “the one who got scammed” online.
“I wonder why… Oh, of course, because I was a black girl. They sent me movies of hanging people, of white guys masturbating on my photo and saying: ‘Damn black man’. We’re going to kill you,'” she recalled, wondering how people could be so cruel.
The online hate was so strong that Leslie said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was trying to help her.
“He was aware that I was being brutally attacked with racial slurs and worse, and started putting people on my account; this was basically the start of Twitter taking this shit more seriously,” she wrote.
Leslie said she leaned on Kate during a difficult night. She also revealed that she learned things from the other women she shared the screen with.
“Fortunately, I learned a lot from Melissa in that session. If she looked at a shot and didn’t think it was right, she would suggest it be taken from a different side or angle,” she said. “Back then I didn’t know you could change shots until I saw Melissa and Kristen do it. And these days I do the same kind of things they did in Ghostbusters.”
Through it all, Leslie struggled to understand why people behaved so horribly. “How do they all come together to intimidate one person? It wasn’t like she had committed a crime or anything; “They were harassing me for a movie, for playing a role in a movie,” she wrote, adding, “I can’t believe I have to say this out loud. .”
“Why would the world be so against a woman? Ghostbusters “It’s iconic,” he added. “What does that say about everyone? I think if we had made it now, things might (might) be different, who knows. (Oh no, I forgot about the reaction to the black siren…)”
If you missed it, Leslie recently talked about Chris Rock and Will Smith’s viral moment at the 2022 Oscars.
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