Earlier this year, reports circulated that Claire Foy had been payed significantly less for her leading (and critically acclaimed) role on The Crown than her supporting co-star Matt Smith. At the time, producer Suzanne Mackie said that "going forward, no one gets paid more than the queen." It was later reported that Foy would receive $250,000 in back pay to make up for the wage gap, but according to Foy she still hasn't seen that money.
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In a new interview with Al Arabiya, Foy refuted the claims that she's been compensated for the wage discrepancy. "That was what was reported that I was back-paid. I've never mentioned anything about it and neither have the producers. The fact that that is 'fact' is -- not quite correct," she said. "Yes, it's Netflix, but it's a British production company. It happened at the same time as it was coming out with a lot of other people that there was a lot of pay inequality across the board -- in the music industry, in journalism, in every industry. It's across the board that it became part of a bigger conversation, which is an odd place to find yourself in."
