Female stars in Hollywood have had enough of the bias the industry has on males, and they are demanding that they be given equal treatment for a change.
Gwyneth Paltrow, who co-starred with Robert Downey Jr. in the "Iron Man" films as Tony Stark's love interest Pepper Potts said that people would be shocked to find out just how much more Downey was paid to do the films as compared to her.
"Look, nobody is worth the money that Robert Downey Jr. is worth," she told Variety. "But if I told you the disparity, you would probably be surprised."
Paltrow said that she only noticed Hollywood's pay gap for women when her own father Bruce Paltrow went into an outrage that an actor with no proven track record is getting the same salary as his daughter. Paltrow did not mention who the actor was or what movie project they were doing at that time.
"It can be frustrating," she said. "It can be painful. Your salary is a way to quantify what you're worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels (expletive)."
The actress was also asked if she would be willing to portray Pepper Potts for one more time given that she's already 43 while Downey Jr. is 50, but Paltrow cheekily answered: "I'd like to, but they might swap me out for an 18-year-old Pepper Potts or something."
She is not the only actress who has complained about gender disparity in Hollywood.
Ashley Judd experienced this while making "Kiss the Girls" back in the late 90s. She was being pursued by a big name from a rival studio, who wanted to cast her in a different film. She refused to divulge his name, but she said that when she did not put out, the offers stopped coming.
"I was sexually harassed by one of the industry's most famous, admired-slash-reviled bosses," she shared.
He invited her to dinner, and everything seemed okay until she arrived at his hotel and was told to meet him upstairs in his room.
"It was so disgusting," she recalled. "He physically lured me by saying, 'Help me pick out what I'm going to wear.' The ultimate thing when I was weaseling out of everything else was, 'Will you watch me shower?'"
"And by the way, I've never been offered a movie by that studio. Ever," she said.
