Adele Lim exited after learning Peter Chiarelli stood to earn $800,000 to $1m while she would make ‘$110,000-plus’
Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim has dropped out of two planned sequels to the hit romantic
comedy, after learning she would be paid about an eighth of what another writer, Peter Chiarelli, would earn.
Lim told the
Hollywood Reporter her perspective was too often used as “soy sauce” – a dressing added to give a project the mere feel of cultural authenticity.