The Academy Award winning actor said she was once paid 12,000% less than a male co-star.
While promoting her movie “Wicked Little Letters” alongside director Thea Sharrock, Colman opened up about the continued pay disparity between men and women in Hollywood on
“Research suggests that they’ve always been big box office draws, but they have chosen to say…Don’t get me started on the pay disparity,” Colman began, before digressing. “But male actors get paid more because they used to say they draw in the audiences.” When Amanpour pointed out that Colman was an Academy Award winning actor, she countered and replied, “I’m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a f--- of a lot more than I am.”Colman is one of many actors who has been open about the pay disparity within Hollywood between men and women, includingin July 2017, “In my career so far, I’ve needed my male co-stars to take a pay cut so that I may have parity with them.
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