Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman spoke out about ongoing disparities in pay for women in Hollywood, telling CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on The Amanpour Hour “I’m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a fuck of a lot more than I am.”
Colman—who, in addition to winning an Academy Award, has starred in dozens of popular projects like The Crown and The Favourite—was asked by Amanpour if she herself had faced pay disparities. “Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences,” Colman said. “And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades, but they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.”
