{"id":586658,"date":"2021-07-08T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586658"},"modified":"2021-07-08T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:06:13","slug":"scarlett-johansson-highest-earning-woman-in-hollywood-says-female-stars-are-underpaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scarlett-johansson-highest-earning-woman-in-hollywood-says-female-stars-are-underpaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson, Highest-Earning Woman In Hollywood, Says Female Stars Are Underpaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscarlett-johansson-highest-earning-woman-in-hollywood-says-female-stars-are-underpaid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/EE5C5391-C37B-4C85-BC08-107E62A472CC-scaled-e1625791817443.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DEpTYrQrmp0\">Glamour Magazine<\/a>, \u201cBlack Widow\u201d star Scarlett Johansson said women aren\u2019t paid what they are worth in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet asked the actress and her co-star Florence Pugh to describe ways they have been their \u201cown allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johansson, who topped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maddieberg\/2019\/08\/23\/highest-paid-actresses-scarlett-johansson\/?sh=42d5517a4b4d\">Forbes\u2019<\/a> list of highest-paid actresses, earning $56 million in 2019, said, \u201cAs a woman, you have to be [your own ally] all the time. Because we are underminded, and underserved, and under-appreciated, and underpaid \u2013 you have to be your own ally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old said her mother taught her when she was young to advocate for herself because she didn\u2019t want her to experience gender discrimination. \u201cEqual pay is a huge part of that fight,\u201d Johansson said. \u201cEven when I was a teenager in the industry or a young woman, I should say, my mom would have those conversations. Like, \u2018why is she not getting (paid the same)?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One explanation for the pay discrepancy between actors of different genders could be because male-led blockbusters tend to outperform their female-led counterparts at the box office. For instance, the two most recent films led by new superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were \u201cBlack Panther\u201d (2018) and \u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d (2019). The former <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5523398\/highest-grossing-marvel-movies\/\">earned<\/a> more than $700 million domestically compared to the latter\u2019s $427 million.<\/p>\n<p>But Johansson dismissed this idea, saying, \u201cThere was always these little key terms, like, \u2018bankability,\u2019 and \u2018box office draw.\u2019 Those are all terms that are basically masquerading as sexism. It never had anything to do with those things. And if there ever was, it was also part of this systemic issue that a woman could not be as bankable or have a box office draw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then added, \u201cMy mom refused that and instilled in me, \u2018No, you have to fight that. You\u2019re desirable because of your work and that\u2019s where your value is. It\u2019s in your talent. It has nothing to do with your gender and don\u2019t let anybody make you feel that way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johansson concluded her argument that by saying she is still in a \u201cconstant fight\u201d to get paid what she is worth. \u201cWe all are,\u201d she said, referring to women in the entertainment business in general.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Johansson has claimed there\u2019s a Hollywood pay gap. In 2016, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/news\/a56300\/scarlett-johansson-may-2016\/\">Cosmopolitan<\/a>, \u201cI think every woman has (been underpaid). But unless I\u2019m addressing it as a larger problem, for me to talk about my own personal experience with it feels a little obnoxious. It\u2019s part of a larger conversation about feminism in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cI am very fortunate, I make a really good living, and I\u2019m proud to be an actress who\u2019s making as much as many of my male peers at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johansson did not comment on whether it is similarly unfair that some of the male actors in \u201cThe Avengers,\u201d like Robert Downey Jr., reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/avengers-endgame-salaries-how-much-chris-hemsworth-downey-jr-scarlett-johansson-chris-evans-a9003181.html\">made<\/a> considerably more than other male stars, like Paul Rudd or Chris Evans.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with Glamour Magazine, \u201cBlack Widow\u201d star Scarlett Johansson said women aren\u2019t paid what they are worth in Hollywood.The outlet asked the actress and her co-star Florence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314313,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/EE5C5391-C37B-4C85-BC08-107E62A472CC-scaled-e1625791817443.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Scarlett Johansson, Highest-Earning Woman In Hollywood, Says Female Stars Are Underpaid","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/EE5C5391-C37B-4C85-BC08-107E62A472CC-scaled-e1625791817443.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Scarlett Johansson, Highest-Earning Woman In Hollywood, Says Female Stars Are Underpaid","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}