Robin Wright: 'I was told I was receiving equal pay but I found out recently that wasn't true'

Robin Wright has revealed that despite being told was she was receiving equal pay for her role in House of Cards, she recently discovered that that wasn't the case.

The 51-year-old actress and advocate for equal pay in Hollywood plays the formidable Claire Underwood opposite on-screen husband Kevin Spacey in the Netflix political thriller, and recently disclosed that she fought tirelessly to be paid the same as her male counterpart.

She's since told NET-A-PORTER'S The Edit: "Yes [I fought the studio for equal pay]. I was told that I was getting equal pay and I believed them, and I found out recently that it's not true.

"Yes, so that's something to investigate. Claire and Francis are equivalent as far as their power, their union and the plot.

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"I may not have as many scenes or words as Francis, but Claire doesn't need to verbalise as much. Francis is an orator, a poet, a demonstrator. Claire is an [ego] that sits in the back and directs him, but they are partners on the same plane."

Wright had previously said in an interview last year that she had threatened studio bosses with going public unless they agreed to equal pay, which they had claimed to do.

"It was the perfect paradigm. There are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in House of Cards," she said at an event in New York.

"I was looking at the statistics and Claire Underwood's character was more popular than [Frank's] for a period of time. So I capitalised on it. I was like: 'You'd better pay me or I'm going to go public.' And they did."

The star told the publication that she now wants to work solely behind the camera, adding: "I only want to direct. I don't want to be in front of the camera anymore.

"I've done it, I'm bored. I so appreciate [this career], I've been doing it 30 years, but I love watching and helping other actors bring [their talent] to fruition."

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