Jennifer Lawrence

Last year’s Sony hack disaster brought plenty of juicy tidbits. Kaiser covered the latest news about co-chairman Amy Pascal “resigning” as co-chairman. After her exit, Amy opened up at the Women in the World conference. I’m sure there were limits on what she could say, and the sweet severance package (which Kaiser talked about today) made it all worth it.

Amy did talk about the leaked information about American Hustle salaries. Jennifer Lawrence was paid less than her male co-stars even though — at the time — she was the biggest box-office draw of the bunch. Some of you disagreed, but the Hustle deal was inked immedately after the Hunger Games release. She was already in the successful X-Men franchise too. JLaw didn’t have as much screentime as the men or Amy Adams, but I see that as a minor point. Remember how Julia Roberts once got paid $3 million for 6 minutes of screentime? JLaw is as much of an attraction as Julia was in her heydey.

Amy says she didn’t agree with Jennifer making less money:

On the JLaw salary discrepancy: “I’ve paid [Jennifer Lawrence] a lot more money since then, I promise you. Here’s the problem: I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money … Women shouldn’t work for less money. They should know what they’re worth. Women shouldn’t take less. ‘Stop, you don’t need the job that bad.’”-

[From Hollywood Reporter]

Well … Amy didn’t say anything wrong here. Women shouldn’t work for less money than men make, period. If female actors don’t hold out for better deals, then studio execs will walk all over them. It’s difficult to put the onus onto actresses, who generally enjoy less job security and room for flops than male actors. But if Charlize Theron could demand equal pay from Sony, so could JLaw.

Jennifer Lawrence

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