Robin Wright on Fighting for Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’: They Said, ‘We Can’t Pay You the Same’ as Kevin Spacey ‘Because You Didn’t Win an Academy Award’

Robin Wright reflected on her time on “House of Cards” at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival on Monday, saying she had to fight for equal pay on the series because she didn’t have an Oscar. During a chat moderated by Variety’s international features director Leo Barraclough, Wright recalled scoring a lead role on the 2013 show, which was Netflix’s first big TV series. “When David Fincher introduced ‘House of Cards’ to me, he said: ‘This is going to be the future, it’s going to be revolutionary,'” Wright recalled. “And look where...