The cat has been out of the bag for a while now: the gender pay gap is a huge problem in Hollywood. With this in mind, we were preparing to see how Selena Gomezthe salary of stacked against her Only murders in the building co-stars, big names in comedy Steven Martin and Martin runs.
Times are changing… We hope
There’s no doubt that Selena Gomez has held her own Only murders in the building co-stars Steven Martin and Martin Short, but does his pay match his performance? Well, according to a recent report by VarietyGomez, Martin and Short all take home $600,000 per episode for their work on the show.
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Considering how easily Gomez could have been underpaid, it’s a reassuring revelation for the show’s second season. Plus, looking at other television salaries, we can’t help but think that times are changing.
Winona Ryder and David Harbor received equal pay for their roles on stranger things. Millie Bobby Brown even topped other actors in her age group by $50,000 per episode – that’s no small change. It’s easy to celebrate these steps in the right direction, but, sadly, there’s still a long way to go.
Bryce Dallas Howard is still fighting for equal pay
Bryce Dallas Howard recently made headlines for revealing the pay gap between her and her jurassic world co-star Chris Pratt. In 2018, a report claimed that Howard made $2 million less for the film than Pratt. Howard fired back at the claim, insisting that she was actually earning significantly less than reported.
“When I started trading for ‘Jurassic,’ it was in 2014 and it was a different world, and I was at a huge disadvantage. And, unfortunately, you have to sign up for three movies, so your deals are set. “, explained Howard.
Fortunately, Howard was not alone in her fight for equal pay. According to black mirror actress, Pratt went to bat for her whenever he could.
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“What I will say is that Chris and I discussed it, and whenever there was an opportunity to move the needle on things that hadn’t already been negotiated, like a game or a ride , he literally said to me, ‘You guys don’t even have to do anything. I will do all the negotiation. We’re gonna get paid the same and you don’t have to think about it, Bryce. I love him so much for doing this,” Howard revealed. “Really, because I got paid more for that stuff than I ever got paid for the movie.”
It just goes to show that these age-old industrial practices die hard. It has been made very clear that actresses will not receive equal pay without demanding it, but we hope that equal pay between men and women will continue to be normalized in the future.
