Posted on 08/28/2016 2:31:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Forbes list of the world’s richest actresses provides a heaven-sent opportunity to slaver over photos of beautiful women and very large sums of money: solemnly recorded figures that can really be no more than intelligent guesswork. In pretty much the same spirit, Forbes regularly provides an enjoyable ranking of the richest fictional people, from Jay Gatsby to Smaug, complete with estimated dollar amounts.
This year, Jennifer Lawrence is top of the actress list, with a supposed pre-tax income of $46m. Melissa McCarthy comes in second with a putative $33m and Scarlett Johansson gets bronze with what could plausibly be $25m.
But wait. This list features actors who many people will never have heard of: No 5 is Fan Bingbing ($17m) and Deepika Padukone ($10m) is No 10. Such is our Hollywood-centric world, these names may be unfamiliar. But the former is a colossal star of the Chinese film industry, while Padukone enjoys a similiar status in India.
Fan is a former TV star turned movie icon in mainland China, and she has also – in the now traditional manner – become a multi-hyphenated career player. She is a fashion designer, supermodel, philanthropist and, most importantly, producer-mogul. She set up the Fan Bingbing studio to make her own films and develop other projects....
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Jennifer Lawrence is the underpaid women. She complained about women being underpaid compared to the men. She hasn’t given up any of the money as far as I know to the male actors in her films who are making less nor the crew.
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