Gwyneth Paltrow calls Hollywood’s pay-gap “sh*tty”
Gwyneth Paltrow became an A-list actress after starring in the psychological thriller Seven alongside Brad Pitt. Several years later she would win an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. Paltrow starred on hit movies such as The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal(2001), and Proof (2005), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in Motion Picture – Drama.
Recently, Gwyneth Paltrow says that the male to female Hollywood pay gap is “painful.”
In a recent interview with Variety, “Your salary is a way to quantify what you’re worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels s - - tty.”
She also brought up the difference in wages between her and Iron Man co-star Robert Downey Jr.
“Look, nobody is worth the money that Robert Downey Jr. is worth,” she says. “But if I told you the disparity, you would probably be surprised.”
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