Chelsea Lauren/WireImageAzealia Banks is the latest celebrity to support Mo’Nique‘s Netflix boycott.
The comedian and Oscar winner has accused the streaming company of gender and color bias after she was allegedly lowballed in her fee for a recent Netflix comedy special.
In an Instagram story, captured by RhymesWithSnitch, Azealia wrote, “Since I love Monique and have always thought Amy Schumer was yet another painfully unfunny, painfully unattractive woman (who happened to be white {privilege} who’s [sic] mouth eerily looks like a cabbage patch doll.. I WILL STAND WITH MONIQUE. MAKE MONIQUE GREAT AGAIN AND GET CABBAGE PATCH SCHUMER THE F*** OUT OF WOMENS COMEDY.”
As previously reported, Mo’Nique, alongside her husband-manager Sidney Hicks, explained her boycott in an Instagram video post Monday.
Citing figures from Box Office Mojo, she insisted that she’s more “bankable” than actress and comic Amy Schumer, to whom Netflix reportedly paid millions more for a special.
“In 2017, Amy Schumer did a film called Snatched,” Mo’Nique says in the video. “That film made 45 million dollars domestically. In 2016, I did a film called Almost Christmas, that film made 42 million dollars domestically. Amy Schumer’s budget for Snatched was 42 million dollars, and it made 45 million dollars.”
“Could somebody please make it make sense?” Mo’Nique asks at the end of her video, adding the caption, “Fact checking. What is bankability. Make it Make Sense.”
Jada Pinkett-Smith and Wanda Sykes have tweeted their support of Mo’Nique’s claims.
A spokesperson for Netflix told ABC News, “Netflix doesn’t comment on contract negotiations.”
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