“This came as no surprise to me.
Here are some of the fierce females who have been pushing for better pay.
After learning about the pay gap, Lawrence fought hard when negotiating her paycheck for “Passengers.
According toParade, Pratt made $12 million for the 2016 film.
Then Lawrence added, “It’s extremely uncomfortable to inquire about equal pay.
I’m still not going to get paid as much as that guy, because of my vagina?”
“Charlize insisted that she get paid the same money as Chris.
We were doing a sequel, we had done it together, why not?”
“I felt lucky,” she said about receiving equal pay, then she corrected herself.
“No, I didn’t feel lucky.
I deserved that and I asked for it.”
“You do have to shame and guilt them into it,” she recalled.
I was like, ‘You better pay me, or I’m gonna go public.'”
But in 2017, Wright revealed to Rhapsody (viaCNN) that the increase didn’t materialize.
“I don’t think I’m getting paid the same amount,” Wright said.
“They told me I was getting a raise.
I don’t think so.”
She added, “I really don’t like being duped.”
The Golden Globewinning actor voiced further thoughts.
“It’s such a male-dominant workforce still,” she said.
“There’s a conditioning.
And changing the condition of men is what needs to happen.”
Eventually, Wright did (inadvertently) come out on top.
Streep was vital to the film getting made.
They feared it would insult Anna Wintour, the legendary and intimidating Vogue editor who inspired Streep’s character.
“The fact is that Meryl Streep wanted to do the movie.
That put that discussion at rest, because she was so admired and respected,” Gabler said.
However, Streep received an unimpressive initial offer for the coveted role.
“There was my ‘goodbye moment,’ and then they doubled the offer.
The Richestreported that Streep earned $5 million for the 2006 film.
According toIMDb, the movie cost $35 million to make and brought in over $326 million worldwide.
In the show’s earliest episodes, Anderson wasn’t even allowed to stand beside Duchovny on-camera.
She also took home a smaller paycheck than Duchovny.
In the show’s fourth season, she finally achieved pay parity.
For years, she’d told interviewers that the pay disparity she’d endured was in the past.
“And then it happened again!”
she exclaimed to The Daily Beast.
She was surprised that few people seemed interested to learn she was again being offered less than Duchovny.
I’m happy to say that Gillian is paid the same as David now.”
Her salary negotiations stalled the show’s renewal for a while.
“I’ll tell you the person who supported me the most was William H. Macy.
“And after it became public, it was a quick resolution.”
Macy shared his feelings about his co-star’s pay demands withTMZ.
“She works as hard as I do,” he said.
“She deserves everything.”
In truth, co-star Patrick Dempsey took home the biggest paycheck at first.
“I didn’t even realize until we were renegotiating Season 3.”
More than once, Pompeo approached Dempsey about negotiating as a team, but he always declined.
They wouldn’t give it to me,” she toldThe Hollywood Reporterin 2018.
AfterDempsey left “Grey’s Anatomy"in Season 11, the show remained popular.
She confessed to The Hollywood Reporter her initial worries about seeming greedy.
“A guy wouldn’t have any problem asking for $600,000 an episode.
And as women, we’re like, ‘Oh, can I ask for that?
Is that OK?'”
Audiences loved Somers’ character, Chrissy Snow.
“The show’s response was, ‘Who do you think you are?'”
“They said, ‘John Ritter is the star.'”
Instead of receiving more money,Somers was fired from “Three’s Company.”
“Life isn’t fair,” she toldThe Hollywood Reportermore than three decades after the incident.
“He said [that] was what I deserved to be paid.”
Emma Stone has experienced a similar situation more than once.
Howard recalled that he reassured her, “I’m gonna do all the negotiating.
She expressed her gratitude to Pratt: “And I love him so much for doing that.
