Jennifer Lawrence raises her voice on the salary difference between her and Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Don’t Look Up’

Despite both Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio starring in the new film Don’t look up by Adam McKay for Netflix, the actor was recently reported to have received millions more than her, with him earning a total of $ 30 million for the film, while Lawrence received $ 25.

However, the actress defended her partner and the salary difference between the two in an interview with Vanity Fair, specifying that she feels satisfied with her payment, since, although she has won awards for her work and even an Oscar for Best Actress, DiCaprio is the one that attracts the most audience.

Leo generates more box office profits than me. I feel extremely lucky and happy with my payment. In other situations, what I have seen, and I am sure other women in this industry have also seen it, is that it is very complicated and uncomfortable to demand equitable payment. And if you do something that questions the salary difference, they always tell you that it is not because of your gender, but they do not explain exactly why.

Don’t look up is a comedy with touches of black humor created by McKay, who had previously worked on The big bet alongside Christian Bale, Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds, and follows a graduate student, played by Lawrence, who discovers a comet about to impact Earth. DiCaprio plays a professor who teams up with her in an attempt to warn humanity of impending danger.

Lawrence also revealed that during the film’s creation, he asked editors to put his name first than DiCaprio’s, adding that while the actor agreed, the production response was that they could put their names side by side. , offer that she rejected.

I was the first to be called for the project, my name was first on the call list, so I thought the logical thing was that the credits of the film should reflect that. Leo agreed, but they wanted to put our names side by side, even though I asked them to have mine appear first. Perhaps, in that way, I gave them to understand that if they didn’t, then they weren’t being fair.

This is not the first time that Lawrence has spoken about the outrageous wage gap between men and women in Hollywood. In 2015, she declared that one of her co-stars received much more money than her despite the fact that they both starred in the story and how that experience taught her to be more direct when negotiating her payment.

I got mad at myself when I learned that my male colleagues earned much more than I did. I failed as a negotiator because I gave up too early. At the time, he didn’t want to keep fighting for millions of dollars that, frankly, thanks to two successful franchises, he didn’t need.