As the Academy Awards approaches, Oscar winning actress and comedienne Mo’Nique has some more shocking news about director Lee Daniels. In an interview with Variety, Mo’nique claims that she was paid only $50,000 for her role in “Precious.” She also goes on to say that Lee Daniels offered her money off the back-end, which he has yet to dish out. “There was a backend, in all fairness. But the end it was behind, it was the double triple quadruple backend,” she said. “Because Lee Daniels was my friend, he said, ‘This is what.’ And we said, ‘Okay.’ That movie made a lot of money all over the world. And again you have to ask yourself, ‘Why is it that we don’t take part in it [financially]?’ Myself and Gabourey Sidibe, we should have become multi-millionaires off that movie, had we been given the right information. We weren’t given the right information. If you’re not given the right information, it doesn’t allow you to negotiate fairly.” “Precious” became a box office hit, garnering over $47.5 million in box office sales. With that in mind, Mo’nique should have easily made a few millions off of the project. Interesting….
