Busy Phillipps has considered looking ‘a mess’ on the red carpet to protest the costs that actresses are expected to cover
Busy Phillips is considering a red-carpet rebellion!
Inspired by Taraji P. Henson’s outrage about the economics of Hollywood, Phillips told us she’s considering showing up at a premiere looking “like a mess” in protest against the eye-watering bills that stars are expected to foot in the name of publicity.
In November Henson was driven to tears while appearing on Gayle King’s Sirius XM show as she explained the dollars and cents in Tinseltown.
“I hear people go, ‘You work a lot.’ Well, I have to,” she said on the show, “The math ain’t math-ing. When you start working a lot, you have a team. Big bills come with what we do. We don’t do this alone. It’s a whole team behind us. They have to get paid.”
On the red carpet for the premiere of season 3 of “Girls5Eva” at the Paris Theatre, Phillips told Page Six that she agrees with Henson.
“I have to continually hustle. It is so true. With hair, makeup and wardrobe and what it cost, Taraji P. Henson really spoke to that, and I felt it so deeply because I look at the money I am supposedly making and then it is not just the bills but what is expected of me when I show up at a place,” she told us.
“The film company or this production company is only going to pay this percentage of your hair, makeup and wardrobe so then you have to make up the rest,” she said, “So then you are a thousand dollars out of pocket and at the end of the day it’s like, ‘What am I doing?’ Sometimes I think I should just show up a mess at one of these things as a protest.”
Phillips said that Instagram has helped her to bridge the gap between her paychecks and the costs of being a celebrity.
“I am so grateful that in the last ten years I have been able to partner with so many brands and I monetized my Instagram very early on, and that has kept me afloat in a way where a lot of my dear friends who are actresses have not been as fortunate,” she said.
