After the reported news came out that Jennifer Lawrence will make $20 million for her role in the new film Passengers while the male lead, actor Chris Pratt, will only make a fraction of that, Amanda Seyfried told the Sunday Times, “It’s rare for a woman to be paid more than (or the same as) her famous male counterpart.”
Without revealing the name of the film or the male co-star, 29-year-old Seyfried said that
in one of her big budget films she was paid 10 percent of her male counterpart’s salary. “A few years ago, one of my big-budget films, I found I was being paid 10 percent of what my male co-star was getting,” said Seyfried. “And we were pretty even in status.”
Seyfried’s past film credits include : Mean Girls, Mamma Mia!, Dear John, In Time, Les Misérables, The Big Wedding, Lovelace, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Ted 2 and Pan. She also said that she felt is was important for every actress to fight for equal pay.
According to E! News, Jennifer Lawrence said at San Diego Comic-Con that gender inequalities in Hollywood are something she also finds important. “‘Yeah, because once you get to a certain place, people will hire you. They just want you to be in the movie, so they don’t care,” Lawrence said. “I’m not in a place where I could complain, or speak of not getting enough roles because I’m very lucky. I have a lot of opportunities. But I would be interested to hear someone who is not in two franchises answer that question, because I’m not really in a place to fully understand it.”
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