The Priyanka Chopra starrer "Citadel" released April 28, 2023 has become the top web series according to the VOD-tracking website, FlixPatrol. Chopra revealed that after two decades in show business, she was finally getting equal pay on her projects beginning with the Prime Video's web series “Citadel” and now “Love Again”.
Citadel" claimed the first position on the popularity list, Followed by Netflix's "Sweet Tooth" season two. The third place in the list belonged to the Amazon Prime series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel".
Priyanka Chopra revealed that at first she was surprised and later was moved that she would be receiving equal pay with her male co-star Richard Madden on the series. She added that initially she didn't think that it was something that would ever happen in her lifetime so she had stopped thinking about it.
In an interview with Shondaland, Priyanka said, "I was kind of very surprised honestly, because I had given up thinking about it or talking about it. Because the disparity between what my male co-actors would get and what I would get, even if I was a co-lead, was just so different and so vast that [it] was not something that I even thought would happen in my lifetime. And that's a really tragic thing to think about. But when my agents at UTA suggested that they wanted to go back in and negotiate on my behalf and see if that was a possibility. And when it happened, I wondered if it was the fact that the head of Amazon Studios [Jennifer Salke] at that time was a woman."
She added, "When women are in positions of power, do they turn around and help other women and create other opportunities for other women? I think the answer was yes. So, I felt very moved. I felt very... like I've broken the glass ceiling or pushed the glass ceiling a little bit for myself, and hopefully for other actors. I have to say that I have enjoyed parity since in most of the jobs that I have done after Citadel, including Love Again."
The season finale of Prime Video's Citadel will be streamed on May 26, 2023.
Citadel, shot with a budget of $50 million per episode, revolves around a group of agents from different countries who are all tasked with solving a mystery that threatens to destroy the world order.
Priyanka also has the rom-com “Love Again” opposite Sam Heughan lined up for release on May 5, 2023. The actress shows off a more tender side in "Love Again", playing a grieving widow sending her dead husband text messages, accidentally sparking a new relationship.