Cristela Alonzo is revealing some surprising info about her sitcom. The 41-year-old actress and producer revealed that she wasn’t paid for her ABC sitcom pilot Cristela. Cristela revealed this on Twitter, while sharing an article from 2017 about Lena Dunham’s show Girls, where Lena said she sold the show to HBO with a page-and-a-half-long pitch, without a character or plot. “I got paid $0 for my sitcom pilot.
When I sold my show, my white partner got 3 x more money then [sic] me AND an overall deal. I was ‘not ready’ to get one. The name of the show was Cristela.
I also offered to shoot the show in English/Spanish. I wasn’t the highest paid person on it,” Cristela tweeted.
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