- Jennifer Lawrence is one of the world’s most beautiful and well-paid actresses.
- She earned $52 million in 2014, becoming the world’s highest-paid actress.
- Many actresses in the West and India have spoken out about the pay disparity they face over the years.
Jennifer Lawrence is one of the world’s most beautiful and well-paid actresses. The actress, who has appeared on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list several times, is best known for her roles as mutant Mystique in the X-Men film series and Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series. But did you know she, too, is a victim of pay disparity?
Jennifer Lawrence earned $52 million in 2014, becoming the world’s highest-paid actress, but it was still $28 million less than the world’s highest-paid actor, Robert Downey Jr. Continue reading to find out what she said about this inequality in 2015.
Jennifer Lawrence discusses the disparity in pay for American Hustle compared to her male co-stars in an essay published in the October 13, 2015 edition of Lenny. During the information about how much each actor was paid was leaked.
According to Forbes, Jennifer Lawrence wrote in her piece, “When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with d*cks, I didn’t get mad at Sony, I got mad at myself.” She continued, “I failed as a negotiator because I gave up early. I didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that, frankly, due to two franchises, I don’t need.”
For those who don’t know, Lawrence had made a name for herself at the time by playing prominent roles in The Hunger Games and X-Men films. According to leaked Sony correspondence, the actress and her female co-star Amy Adams took home only 7% of the profits, while the male actors – Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, and Jeremy Renner – took home 9%.
Many actresses in the West and India have spoken out about the pay disparity they face over the years.
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