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has opened up about how her pay disparity on led to the series’ end. “When I took the job, they said it wasn’t meant to be the show. It was meant to be our show,” the actress told the .

But when it came to pay and credits, Richardson indicates the two weren’t treated equally. Richardson recalled that for the show’s third season, she managed to renegotiate her contract to secure a guarantee of four episodes per season focused on her character, Jill Taylor, along with a profit share point that entitled her to a back-end percentage of the series’ earnings. “I knew that residuals just get less and less, and I felt that I am going to end up being a huge part of whatever this show is,” she said.



“It’s going to work because of me almost as much as because of Tim.” While Richardson was able to share her input on her character, guiding the male-dominated writers room on how to write for the matriarch of the Taylor family, she was denied a producer credit, she says, arguing that was allegedly due to a fear that it would set a precedent for other actors. However, Allen was credited as an executive consultant in the first season and later became an executive producer during the sixth.

co-creator and executive producer Carmen Finestra denied this, claiming it was likely Disney’s decision to not give Richardson the producer credit. When the show reached its eighth season, Richardson wanted to leave it, as she wanted to spend more time with her children following h.

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