Barbra Streisand Is Still ‘P***ed Off’ Over ‘Fockers’ Salary: ‘They’d Have to Pay Me a Lot of Money’ to Do ‘Meet the Parents 4’

Barbra Streisand still gives a “fock” astir her “Meet nan Fockers” salary. The EGOT winner, who appears successful “Meet nan Parents” franchise installments “Meet nan Fockers” (2004) and “Little Fockers” (2010), told Variety that she was “pissed off” by nan net discrepancies crossed nan ensemble cast.

Streisand played Ben Stiller’s onscreen mother Roz, pinch Dustin Hoffman arsenic her husband. The duo were nan in-law foils to Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner, nan parents of Stiller’s woman (Teri Polo). A 4th “Meet nan Parents” film was announced earlier this year, pinch Stiller, De Niro, Danner, Polo, and Owen Wilson (who starred arsenic Polo’s ex) reprising their roles. However, don’t stake connected Streisand’s return.

“They’d person to salary maine a batch of money because I didn’t get paid what nan different group sewage paid and truthful I’m pissed off,” nan icon said while promoting her album, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two.” 

She added, “I was successful nan clip erstwhile women were getting paid little than nan men. The caput of Universal was Ron Meyer astatine nan time, and he really sent maine a prize check. It was very sweet.”

Yet Streisand is still moving parallel to nan “Meet nan Parents” universe: The vocalist collaborates pinch “Meet nan Parents 4” character Ariana Grande for nan opus “One Heart, One Voice” disconnected nan caller album. Streisand said that Grande has 1 of nan “hottest, biggest, astir awesome voices” successful nan industry. Grande is group for an undisclosed role successful nan 4th “Meet nan Parents” film, which will beryllium released November 25, 2026. John Hamburg, nan co-writer of nan first 3 “Meet nan Parents” films, writes and directs nan fourth.

As for her different imaginable acting roles, Streisand stayed mum. “I get a batch of offers, but they’re funny offers. Well, 1 was good. It was thing that Peter Bogdanovich was going to do, and Guillermo del Toro sent it to me, I think. It’s a taxable that I really love, but I’m not going to show you,” she said. “I ever wanted to extremity my career, my movie profession doing ‘Gypsy.’ That would’ve been nan book extremity to my ‘Funny Girl’ play. I couldn’t get that done. Time goes truthful fast.”

Streisand is presently successful accumulation connected a multi-part documentary astir her life, pinch Frank Marshall directing and Alex Gibney producing. Streisand herself, though, isn’t looking to nonstop anytime soon. “I’m not fresh to nonstop again,” nan “Yentl” filmmaker said. “I deliberation I’ve astir apt had it.”