{"id":1905748,"date":"2023-03-28T01:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shazam-star-says-its-a-struggle-to-get-paid-his-worth-in-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:42:50","slug":"shazam-star-says-its-a-struggle-to-get-paid-his-worth-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shazam-star-says-its-a-struggle-to-get-paid-his-worth-in-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shazam!\u2019 Star Says \u2018It\u2019s A Struggle\u2019 To Get Paid His Worth In Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshazam-star-says-its-a-struggle-to-get-paid-his-worth-in-hollywood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1905748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>&#8221; Shazam!&#8221; Even after working in the industry for more than 30 years, star Djimon Hounsou claimed that&#8221; it&#8217;s a war&#8221; to have paid his worth in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old stated in a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/mar\/16\/i-felt-seriously-cheated-djimon-hounsou-on-the-oscars-poor-pay-days-stardom-and-struggle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> that he is&#8221; now struggling to try to make money&#8221; while observing those who have been acting in films for just as long as him who are doing better financially.<\/p>\n<p>Hounsou remarked,&#8221; I&#8217;ve come up in the business with some people who are incredibly wealthy and receive very little of my plaudits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, he continued,&#8221; I feel extremely cheated in terms of both the task and the income.&#8221; &#8221; I still need to provide evidence of my desire for payment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Actor Djimon Hounsou criticizes Hollywood for feeling&#8221; extremely cheated&#8221; by the industry at https :\/\/ t.co \/ RQw4vtIKhNpic.twitter.com \/ JDA2N9EWor<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1639896516012785664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a>, New York Post(@ nypost )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The artist continued,&#8221; They usually come at me with a perfect low game. We only have this much for the role, but we really love you and think you can get so little. &#8221; Show after show, it&#8217;s a battle.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t already met the movie that gave me a fair wage.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the&#8221; Shazam!&#8221; The sun of&#8221; Fury of the Gods&#8221; expressed his displeasure at the lack of functions available to black people over the years, noting that in a five-year run, he played three slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Hounsou expressed his frustration at not being acknowledged by the industry for his work, saying,&#8221; I felt truly cheated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued,&#8221; Right, we talk a lot about how the Oscars are so pale, but I remember that I used to have absolutely no support from my own people, the media, or the field itself.&#8221; &#8221; You should be happy that you&#8217;ve been nominated, and that&#8217;s that ,&#8221; it felt.<\/p>\n<p>In Steven Spielberg&#8217;s&#8221; Amistad ,&#8221; where he played a disobedient slave, Hounsou got his first big break. Since then, he has made appearances in popular films like&#8221; Gladiator ,&#8221;&#8221; Blood Diamond&#8221;,&#8221; Tomb Raider ,&#8221; and&#8221; Aquaman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DC world has a certain level of respect, he claimed, of all the movies on which his work has been based.<\/p>\n<p>In the first&#8221; Shazam ,&#8221; he said,&#8221; There wasn&#8217;t much to the role at first&#8230; I did it and it was fun!&#8221; However, it was a little more courteous the next day.<\/p>\n<p>He continued,&#8221; They [ Hollywood ] themselves occasionally make the point of saying:&#8221; We should give him more, he&#8217;s a little underappreciated.&#8221; &#8221; I believe they are aware of that themselves. Hey, I have to get this war!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShazam!\u201d star Djimon Hounsou said \u201cit\u2019s a struggle\u201d to get paid his worth in Hollywood even after being in the business for more than 30 years. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 58-year-old said he\u2019s \u201cstill struggling to try to make a dollar\u201d while he sees those who have been acting in movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1905749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17114,4361,6550,9413,5229,4908,5502],"class_list":["post-1905748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-shazam","tag-hollywood","tag-its","tag-paid","tag-star","tag-struggle","tag-worth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}