I’m hopelessly drawn to Jennifer Lawrence threads.
What, she doesn’t have an agent to help negotiate her contracts like every other Hollywood star? I think I’ve discovered the problem.
I remember reading an article that said that women have a tendency to low-ball themselves when it comes to salary negotiations. Not sure if it’s true or not, but interesting, to me anyway.
We are All Victims Now!
Close-up looks like crazy eyes.
Negotiating the best deal is her agent’s job. Her job is to show up, memorize the lines, hit her marks, avoid the furniture, and convincingly emote.
I have little pity for someone worth $60 million. Go cry to someone else. These people amaze me with their “I am as common as all of you” dribble.
Hey, we’re up to almost 10 replies and nobody from the idiot brigade has come in yet to announce, “Never Heard Of Her”.
She’s not alone. I’m a man, and I’ve done the same to myself (I’m not in Hollywood though!) more than once.
Hollywood production studios negotiate with actors and actresses every single day. Some like Lawrence only does it once every few years, if even that. Therefore - who has more experience? Who has more knowledge?
It may be a womanly trait - but more likely, its a HUMAN trait.
I volunteer.
Doesn’t she have an agent? That’s what agents are for.
She is well worth anything a guy gets in a role. If she doesn’t get it, its her own damned fault.
Hollywood tries to screw everyone, not just women.
She got a compromised Oscar, IMO, kind of like Obama’s Nobel. Honored out of season for decent performance. She is nice to look at and seems like a fun gal, but whining about pay with an Oscar and a blockbuster franchise?
There were 10 or 15 actresses who could have played that role, and some of them better. She was a little too young for it, needed to be a late 30s actress who had seen better days but who still looked ok. There were not many lead actors who would have been big box office draws. The ones who are the best draws currently are the ones they chose.
She also failed to secure her phone photos.
I guess that is a man’s fault too.
Renner really didn’t deserve to be in on the top money on that film, and while Christian Bale and Cooper were important, you wouldn’t have had men watching that movie without Amy Adams especially, and J Lawrence.
But I don’t think the director should be compared to the actors. He deserved top dollar.
She still made a bundle on the film.
Maybe she should take testosterone shots.
It's not the d**k, it's the balls that make men better negotiators.
Maybe at the time she deserved less due to her lesser experience and track record to draw??
Damn, a Hollwierd figure who takes responsibility for her own shortcomings? I thing I like her!
Is this not just her blowing smoke to appease the PC crowd?
IMHO Bale likely got more because he was a more seasoned actor, had paid his dues, and played a larger, top-bill role.
If she used obscenity in her self-depreciation, then IMHO she comes off as misandrist, immature and jealous.
She acknowledges other motivations in her acceptance of the offer.
Agents get percentages and want to retain top clients due to the possibility of future repeat business. The market tends to dictate the pay.
When Bale was 25 he starred in a relatively obscure TV movie (Treasure Island) which probably does not generate much back end revenue. Women actors have a shorter shelf life, but in the end IMHO this is primarily due to biology, not discrimination.
If she did not want to seem “difficult” or “spoiled” back then, she may have done a good job of catching up on that now.