Sounds like the Sony hack that revealed a major gender gap in “American Hustle” paychecks changed Jennifer Lawrence’s life more than the naked-picture hack in 2014.
The latter simply made her angry. The former has her angry and resolved to do things differently.
“It’s hard for me to speak about my experience as a working woman because I can safely say my problems aren’t exactly relatable,” she writes in Lenny.
“When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid (for “American Hustle”) than the lucky people (who were male) … I got mad at myself. …I didn’t want to keep fighting over millions of dollars that… I don’t need. (I told you it wasn’t relatable, don’t hate me).”
Lawrence and Amy Adams got less on the back end than Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner, even though J. Law was the white-hot one at the time, coming off “The Hunger Games.” And apparently the Oscar-winner started out getting even less than Adams.
“I didn’t want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.’ At the time, that seemed like a fine idea,” she wrote,” until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn’t worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.'”
“I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion and still be likable!” Lawrence declares.
“A few weeks ago at work, I spoke my mind and gave my opinion in a clear way; no aggression, just blunt,” Lawrence writes. “The man I was working with (actually, he was working for me) said, ‘Whoa! We’re all on the same team here!’ As if I was yelling at him. I was so shocked because nothing that I said was personal, offensive, or, to be honest, wrong.”
