Despite MeToo, actresses continue to earn less

As is commonly said, this is a movie that we have already seen. The wage gap between different-sex actors in Hollywood is still alive. Australian Margot Robbie is currently the highest paid actress with $ 12.5 million for her starring role Barbiebut Leonardo Di Caprio will receive 30 million for the western directed by Martin Scorsese, The killers of the flower moon.

Will Smith was offered 35 for emancipation. Not to mention Tom Cruise and his unprecedented 100 million won to revive the saga of top Gun.

In 2015 the actress Patrizia Arquette gave an acceptance speech for her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress it went viral because it harshly criticized this inequality. A year later he said he had lost roles for being encouraged to speak.

The Geena Davis Institute

After starring as a feminist icon What Thelma and Luisa in 1991, a film that was supposed to change the rules of the game for women in the industry, and see how little had changed, Geena Davis created the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media which works to investigate why women continue to have fewer opportunities.

At the upcoming Emmy Awards on September 12, the actress will receive a special award for her Foundation’s work. Her advice: She keeps fighting and be very sympathetic to each other.

It seems ironic that it’s just Barbie, the doll of the 200 professions, who even reached space, which put Margot Robbie at the top of the highest paid ranking. Directed and written by feminist director Greta Gerwig, the film will be released in July 2023. And speaking of equality, Ryan Gosling, who plays her eternal boyfriend Ken, will earn the same 12.5 million as Robbie.

It won’t be the same in the musical sequel to Joker 2. It is already known that while Joaquin Phoenix will charge $ 20 million to put himself back in the Joker’s shoes, Lady Gaga will only receive 10 million for lending the body and voice to Harley Quinn, the evil companion of the Joker who Robbie casually played in another saga.

Although the perception is that Gaga will be important in the film, which will be released in October 2024 and has a working title about the duo (Joker, madness for two), your check will be inexplicably smaller.

When the actors sympathize

Bryce Dallas Howard confirmed the huge disparity between her salary and that of her co-star Chris Pratt in the saga of Jurassic world. The actress claimed that, aware of the iniquity, Pratt has offered to negotiate the same amount in commissions on marketing products for both of them.. Actor Chadwick Boseman went further, got up and demanded the same salary for his co-star Sienna Miller in 21 Bridges. While exceptional, these contributions are very valuable.

Jessica Chastain I realize that he refused to receive less than his co-stars. She calls it “drawing a line in the sand”. It wasn’t long ago that Michelle Williams nearly had a heart attack when she found out she was being paid $ 1,000 to shoot extra scenes for the film. all the money in the world while Mark Wahlberg charged over a million for the same job.

“It reinforced my belief that equality is not an inalienable right,” Williams complained to his country’s Congress.

The University of Pennsylvania has opened a debate on the subject this year and welcomes contributions from filmmakers who want to explore the case. In the midst of a pandemic, the University of Wisconsin asked an economist, John Heywood, to investigate the wage gap in Hollywood.

The conclusion was that over 1,300 films, analyzing actors and actresses at the same level of prominence, women were paid an average of 25% less compared to their male counterparts. The researcher wonders if audiences help discrimination by accepting that action films are almost always tied to the fate of a male protagonist. Sara?

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