Demi Moore reveals how Bruce Willis played a part in her record-breaking $12.5 million salary demand for 1996 film Striptease Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Sonia Horon For Dailymail.
Com Published: 00:09 BST, 19 September 2024 | Updated: 00:14 BST, 19 September 2024 e-mail 6 shares View comments Demi Moore revealed how her ex Bruce Willis influenced her to demand a $12.5 million salary for her role in Striptease. The 61-year-old star became the highest paid female actress in the world with her huge payday for the 1996 movie, in which she played a stripper.
She told the New York Times newspaper's The Interview podcast that she requested the pay not to compare herself to her mega-star then-husband, 69 — who is currently battling frontotemporal dementia — but because she wanted equal pay. 'It wasn't about comparing myself to him. Yes, I saw what he got paid.
It was really more about: "Why shouldn’t I? If I'm doing the same amount of work, why shouldn't I?"' She compared the situation to her famous Vanity Fair magazine cover, and called out the reaction to the photoshoot. Demi Moore, 61, revealed how her ex Bruce Willis, 69, influenced her to demand a $12.5 million salary for her role in Striptease; she is seen September 16 in LA 'It wasn't about comparing myself to him.
.. It was really more about: "Why shouldn’t I? If I'm doing the same amount of work, why shouldn't I?"' she said on The Interview podcast; the pair seen at the 1996 Striptease premiere R.