Michelle Williams urges for equal pay and show ssupport for women of color during her Emmys speech. Watch here
“When I asked for more dance classes, I heard ‘Yes.’ More voice lessons, ‘Yes,'” she said of her time working on. “A different wig, a pair of fake teeth that weren’t made out of rubber, ‘Yes.’ And all of these things, they require effort, and they cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon.”
Williams also thanked FX and Fox 21 Studios for paying her equal to her male co-stars. “They understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value. And where do they put that value? They put it into their work. And so the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color — because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart — tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her.
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