Jennifer Lawrence thinks that just because she is a woman, she should get paid less than Leonardo DiCaprio. People have different responses to what the actress said.
Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Picture of people
It’s been more than a year since Adam McKay’s black comedy “Don’t Look Up” came out on Netflix, but the details about it are still up for debate.
A source from the Unilad newspaper recently said that Jennifer Lawrence was upset because she learned that Leonardo DiCaprio made $5 million more than her for starring in “Don’t Look Up.”
You can play astronomers Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), who find an asteroid that is going to hit Earth and end the world by chance.
As of 2021, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are two of the ten stars in Hollywood who make the most money.
The movie “Don’t Look Up” paid Jennifer Lawrence $25 million and Leonardo DiCaprio $30 million (USD). Picture: Manfacturer
They are good actors, so getting $25 million to $30 million for a part is a good deal.
The movie “Silver Linings Playbook” won Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar for Best Actress in 2013.
On the other hand, Leonardo DiCaprio is Hollywood’s big name star. Leo was great at getting people to the movies, and in 2016 he won the Oscar for Best Actor. In the last few decades, almost none of the projects he worked on have failed.
Jennifer Lawrence, on the other hand, is unhappy with this pay. Before, in October 2022, Lawrence told Vog magazine, “The problem is that no matter how hard I try, I can’t get paid as much as him.” This meant that Lawrence was paid less than Leo. Because I’m a woman or something?”
People had different responses when they heard that Jennifer Lawrence lost $5 million in salary to Leonardo DiCaprio.
A lot of people in the audience said Jennifer’s speech about gender discrimination in Hollywood as a good thing spoke for many female stars. But it’s not fair to compare her pay to Leo’s.
A lot of people think that Leonardo DiCaprio is more experienced, more important, and more valuable in the business world than Jennifer Lawrence.
The 1997 hit movie “Titanic” stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Picture: the product
Leonardo DiCaprio has become a major Hollywood star since his part in “Titanic” (1997), which earned him 14 Oscar nominations and won him 11 awards. The movie had the fourth highest opening weekend in the history of movies.
Director Quentin Tarantino once said that Leonardo can pretty much choose any movie he wants to be in because he will make a lot of money at the box office.
Even though he hasn’t been in any “Spider-Verse” or movie brands, Leonardo is still the best because he is the most valuable brand himself.
Tom Rothman, president of Sony Studios, also said, “Leonardo’s brand is excellence.”
That’s not the first time Jennifer Lawrence has caused trouble with what she said.
Jennifer shocked everyone when she said out loud in an interview with Variety at the end of last year that she was the first woman to star in an action movie (The Hunger Games). In this way, the star brought up the problem of gender bias in Hollywood, where men are always given more attention.
Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” Picture: Manfacturer
But her sharing got a lot of bad feedback. The audience thought the Oscar winner was too sure of himself and said the lie. There have been many great “women” in Hollywood before Jennifer Lawrence, such as Sigourney Weaver in “Alien,” Angelina Jolie in “Salt,” and Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill.”
While filming “Passengers” with Chris Pratt, some fans also said that Jennifer Lawrence was paid $8 million more than her male co-star. But now Jennifer Lawrence wears the pay cheque to talk about the issue of ‘feminism’.