Carrie Coon Discusses Not Returning for Avengers: Endgame & Marvel Salary

Carrie Coon is opening up about her Avengers: Endgame pay disagreement with Marvel.

Last month, Coon’s husband Tracy Letts discussed how his wife didn’t reprise her role as Proxima Midnight in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame. Coon played the Proxima Midnight MCU character in Avengers: Infinity War and, according to Letts, Marvel Studios wanted her to return for Endgame; however, Coon declined after Marvel said they wouldn’t pay her any more money and that, instead, she should just “feel fortunate to be part of the Marvel Universe.”

Letts said, via Ringer Movies’ The Big Picture, “We would’ve made a bigger deal out of this, but it would have involved us watching the movies and we weren’t going to do that.”

What did Carrie Coon say about Avengers: Endgame and her MCU salary?

Speaking with Variety about The White Lotus Season 3 finale, Coon said about the situation, “Like you should be lucky to be part of this engine that is making money in our industry. Here’s the metaphor: Let’s say you’re starting off in a business and get an entry-level position and are given an entry-level salary. You work in that business for 10 years, you’re no longer making an entry-level salary, and then an amazing company comes to you and says, ‘We think you’re great, and we would like to hire you.’ And you say, ‘Fantastic. I this is an amazing company. I’d love to work for you.’ But they’re only going to pay you your entry-level salary. You decide it’s a great company, I’ll give it a shot. And then you work for them and they extend your contract. You say, ‘Wonderful. Can I expect to receive a salary commensurate with my experience?’ And the company says, ‘No, I’m sorry. We can only pay your entry-level salary.’

“The lesson there is that my time is more valuable elsewhere. And so I part ways with this company, everybody amicably, because my time, especially as a person with a family, is more valuable than that. So it’s purely a business decision. I think that those comments are probably less sexist than they are just an indicator of where the movie industry was heading. IP was driving the industry at that time. Maybe we’re having a shift. Maybe we’re having a swing back. I think people, operate under a tremendous misunderstanding about what we’re paid in those circumstances. I think if people knew, I think they’d be surprised, and wouldn’t be surprised at the decision I made.”

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net