Last year when the whole Sony hack situation happened I remember reading about how the stars of American Hustle (awful movie, don't waste your time if you haven't seen it fyi) would be paid. From what I can understand Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jeremy Renner all received 9% in back-end compensation, in contrast to the 7% that Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence got. As soon as this information got out into the world of course everyone cried "sexism." And I agree, partially. There's no decent excuse as to why Amy Adams didn't make as much as her male co-stars. I'm also surprised at Jeremy Renner getting as much as he did. I know the man is an Avenger and he's been up for 2 Oscars, but still he wasn't in the movie as much as Bale, Adams, and Cooper and I doubt he was much of a box office draw. According to the emails, Jennifer was originally supposed to receive only 5%, which honestly seems fitting to me. She was only in that movie for about 30 minutes. For her to get the 7% that she did is stretching it.
The reason I bring this up now is because Jennifer Lawrence wrote some big op-ed about how Hollywood sexism plagued her and that she should have been paid the same as her male co-stars. Only thing is, she shouldn't have. I consider myself a feminist, and I definitely think that men and women should be paid the same amount for the same work. But at the same time, it's unfair to mistake a difference in the time the actors put in for a gendered pay gap. Like I mentioned before, Amy Adams is the real victim here. Why is nobody mentioning her?
