In an interview with the Radio Times to mark the premiere of Patrick Melrose, Cumberbatch said: “Equal pay and a place at the table are the central tenets of feminism. Look at your quotas. Ask what women are being paid, and say: ‘If she’s not paid the same as the men, I’m not doing it’.”
Patrick Melrose, a Sky Atlantic series based on the novels of Edward St Aubyn, is the first show from Cumberbatch’s production company, SunnyMarch.
Cumberbatch said SunnyMarch’s next project would be about motherhood “with a female lens”. “If it’s centred around my name, to get investors, then we can use that attention for a raft of female projects.”
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