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Jennifer Lawrenceisn’t upset with her payday for her latest film, despite making less than her co-starLeonardo DiCaprio.
Although she received top billing forDon’t Look Up, areport fromVarietyearlier this year revealed that the actress was paid $25 million for the film — which was about $5 million less than DiCaprio was paid.
Lawrence, 31, commented on the pay disparity in a wide-ranging cover story for the December issue ofVanity Fair.
“Look, Leo brings in more box office than I do. I’m extremely fortunate and happy with my deal,” she said. “But in other situations, what I have seen — and I’m sure other women in the workforce have seen as well — is that it’s extremely uncomfortable to inquire about equal pay. And if you do question something that appears unequal, you’re told it’s not gender disparity but they can’t tell you what exactly it is.”
“Leo was very gracious about it,” she said of the billing. “I think we had something called a Laverne & Shirley, which is this billing they invented where it’s an equal billing. But I guess maybe somewhere down the line, I kicked the stone further, like, ‘What if it wasn’t equal?’ "
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This weekend, Lawrence and DiCaprio joined co-starsMeryl StreepandJonah Hillin Los Angelesfor Q&A about their film before screenings of Adam McKay’s end-of-the-world comedy.
Don’t Look Upwill be released on Netflix on Dec. 24. It will be Lawrence’s first film since 2019’sX-Men: Dark Phoenix.
In her cover story interview, the mom-to-be alsoopened up about spending some time away from actingand take a step back from life in the public eye.
“I was not pumping out the quality that I should have,” she explained to the outlet. “I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right.”
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“If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?'” she continued, then noting, “… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life.”
source: people.com
