Rooney Mara Is The Latest Actress To Call Out Cinema’s Gender Pay Gap


Less than a week after Jennifer Lawrence dropped a cutting essay on the gender pay gap in Hollywood, Rooney Mara has added her voice to the chorus of voices calling out the inequality between male and female actors.
Mara, star of Pan and box-office juggernauts The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, called discovering she was earning half what her male co-stars did “frustrating.”

“It’s just a reality of the time that we live in…but at the same time, I’m just grateful to be getting paid at all for what I do.”

She continued to broach the topic in a typically demure manner, saying “it’s not fair, but I think about how much teachers are getting paid, or other people who are doing jobs that are so much more important than what I do, and it’s kind of hard to complain about it.”


“To me, that’s the thing I find so frustrating is calling women spoiled brats and bitches. We just want to have a voice in our life, and I don’t think that’s anything that shouldn’t be encouraged in any human.”
Again, being “hard to complain” about is the exact point Lawrence made in her essay: despite their objective success, actresses are still being paid substantially less than their male counterparts. 
Some of those same guys are getting on board with the changes needed in the industry, with frequent J-Law on-sceen partner Bradley Cooper saying he would be open to discussing pay equality with his female co-stars in the future. 
As far as fighting for equal pay goes, perhaps a lesson could be learnt from old m8 Lisbeth Salander:

Story via The Guardian. 
Image: John Phillips via Getty.

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