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Top 10 most powerful women in Hollywood
Uma Thurman
Earnings per film:
$14 million for comedy flick, My Super Ex-Girlfriend.Industry acclaim:
Oscar-nominated for Pulp Fiction and had numerous nominations for the Kill Bill films.Go for it:
The beautiful Kill Bill star says her career has been 'very touch-and-go' but she still holds a lot of sway and is able to argue for changes in her characters or the film as a whole.'I don't feel power,' says 36-year-old Uma. 'I've been on the A-list and off the A-list and on the D-list like, I can't even tell you how many times. So to me, survival as an actress is just a miracle.
'I haven't made a career out of block-busting movies. I've made a career out of things that worked out that no-one would have expected - quite different than the kind of industry jockeying-for-position kind of thing.'
Power plus points:
Being Quentin Tarantino's muse, one of the most influential directors of his generation.Jennifer Aniston
Earnings per film:
Along Came Polly earned her $5 million but she now commands up to $18 million.Industry acclaim:
Won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Friends.Go for it:
Okay, so many of her post-Friends films have proved that her name on the movie poster doesn't guarantee gold at the box office (Derailed, Friends with Money, Rumour Has It) but she still generates more column inches than any other celebrity, with the exception of her ex-husband Brad and new woman Angelina Jolie.'I only pick things that I respond to, and I never ever know if it is going to be successful or not until you throw it at the wall, the audiences responds, and it either touches that nerve, or it doesn't,' she says of her film choices. 'I've done some far-fetched and some unrealistic films - I'm not saying which they were - and I don't want to go back down that road again.'
She may play the sweet 'girl next door' on screen, but in reality 37-year-old Jen is pretty tough. An astute businesswoman, she and Brad started Plan B, the production company behind Troy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which she left this year.
'Fame can have many different effects on people,' says Jen. 'You can have lots of money and be really faithful and do lots of positive things or waste it all and die of an overdose because you don't know who you are. It's a very seductive industry that bullshits a lot. It makes you think that you're greater than you are sometimes.'
Power plus points:
In 2001, along with her five co-stars, she negotiated a fee of no less that $1 million per episode for Friends, which had become one of the most popular shows in TV history. 'We knew we were playing for high stakes and that's why we never wanted to get into that kind of confrontation again, and the producers knew that,' she said.previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | next
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