Marisa Tomei says she was not paid for her role in The King of Staten Island movie
dailymail.co.ukMarisa Tomei claims she did not get paid for her role in the King of Staten Island film, directed by Judd Apatow.In a new interview with Rolling Stone published on Thursday, the actress, 57, said she reached out to her co-star Pete Davidson, 28 - who also wrote the script along with Apatow andDave Sirus - to see whether he received his paycheck.
The movie was shot in 2019 and released in 2020.'I actually just was talking to Pete today, because I was like, "I never got paid for that.
Did you? In this age of transparency, can we talk?"' she said. Waiting for the paycheck: Marisa Tomei, 57, claims she did not get paid for her role in Judd Apatow's movie King of Staten Island; Pictured on Dec 13, 2021 at Spider-Man: No Way Home premiere in Los AngelesDespite the financial issue, the Spider-Man: No Way Home star reveled she had a great time on the set of the movie. 'I had a rollicking good time. [With director] Judd [Apatow]’s approach to improv — which is extensive — I was intimidated.
I’m with all these stand-ups. It was so freeing. [It] really changed how I approach each character going forward,' she explained.The King of Staten Island was released in 2020 and is a semi-biographical take on Davidson's life, and how he and his mother Amy Waters Davidson coped with his father's death.The Saturday Night Live star's late father Scott Davidson was a New York City firefighter who diedin the September 11 terrorist attacks when Pete was just 7 years old.
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