Jessica Chastain is proud of “brave” Jennifer Lawrence for speaking out

Actress Jessica Chastain is proud of Jennifer Lawrence for speaking out about the gender pay gap in Hollywood. Up to date: 21:06 EST, 16 October 2015 In Jun., Show star reported in that Jessica Chastain made $7 million for her work on The Martian, while Matt Damon took home $25 million. & so the more in that all of us discuss it as a community, in that is what I feel goes to assist.’ So little question she was delighted when her Crimson Peak co star Tom Hiddleston chimed in to back her call for equal pay, saying: ‘It is utterly unreasonable.

“I’ve been in films where I’ve found out my male co-star got paid double what I got paid, and it’s just a reality of the time that we live in”, she told the Guardian.

Jessica said it’s “completely unfair” that actors are paid more than their female counterparts for doing the same job in the same movie. ‘It’s not right. It’s been happening for years and years and years.

Lawrence was paid much less than her male co-stars, which was revealed when hackers leaked Sony Pictures’ private documents online.

She added, too, ahem, that reports about what she’d made filming The Martian were inaccurate: “I’ve actually never said this, I think, so here we go!”

Earlier this week, Jennifer admitted to being surprised by the pay gap between herself and her male co-stars in “American Hustle“, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jeremy Renner.

‘I would be lying if I didn’t say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight, ‘ she wrote one Lena’s Dunham’s Lenny newsletter.

“I didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that, frankly, due to two franchises, I don’t need”.