Sienna Miller offered HALF a male co-star... — Page 2

I think that sexism is a big problem in theater and in basically every other working place, but here it all depends on who is the male co-star. I mean, if he's Hugh Jackman or someone like that is more than comprehensible that they won't pay the relatively unknown Sienna the same salary. I mean, I don't think she got the same money of Bradley Cooper for that awful "American Sniper"

I don't know, of course, but I suspect it wasn't someone as famous as Bradley Cooper; I base that on the fact that she didn't take the job. I think if it had been a major star, she would have done it. My guess is that it was either a much lesser "star" or someone perhaps with a development or other proprietary interest in the project. Sometimes when a project is built around a particular performer, their salary is higher than what comes from just "an offer"-- from the sound of it, Sienna was offered a part, and didn't work on developing the piece herself. That said, it definitely could have been just good old fashioned sexism, but I can't imagine that being the full story. Like others have mentioned, her name isn't really valuable in selling tickets. It's far more likely that a) she didn't really want to do it that much, and b) there was some reason other than being male that her co star had a higher salary.

Hopefully some man will make a statement with the real story!

This has to be one of the best subject lines in the history of BWW!

Whatever amount of money they offered her, it was too much.

How would she know what the other actor's salary was? That's not usually made public.

neonlightsxo said: "^ I was thinking the same thing. How did she find that out/why would they tell her? "

There are very few secrets. At the simplest level, she (or her agent) could have spoken to him (or his agent). And since this stuff will always become clear once there is an offering, few people feel any great need to keep things under wraps. Another approach would be to demand a most favored nation clause, in which case not getting it tells you there is a disparity and then you start digging. As others have discussed. the real problem with all this is that Miller is not Julia Roberts and so the lack of equal pay demands that we ask whether the other person is a bigger star.

That's hilarious.

I'm shocked, I say. Shocked!

"The bigger star gets more money. Always has. Always will."

Untrue. One of the biggest reveals of the Sony email hack was that Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams were paid less than their male co-stars in American Hustle, and both are bigger stars than Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner.

The bigger star gets more money within their gender. If someone can find a more recent example than My Fair Lady, where the woman is paid more than man in the case of stars of comparable fame and box office success, I'd be surprised.

Updated On: 9/15/15 at 10:43 PM

Orange Skittles, I am fairly sure that Julia Roberts received a lot more money for Three Days of Rain than Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. I would also say that by the time they made American Hustle, Bradley was a much bigger box-office star than Jennifer Lawrence, having been a part of the Hangover franchise. Jennifer had not won her Oscar when American Hustle went into production, and her own Hunger Games franchise had not yet become the established success it became. Plus, she is a supporting player in American Hustle, and he is the lead.

Amy Adams having been paid so much less is indicative of disparity on first look, but she is more of a supporting player than a leading star. She has supporting roles in nearly every one of her hits. She is wonderful, and a multi-Oscar nominee, but it's been a while since she's been the main star and the movies in which she has been (Big Eyes and Trouble With the Curve, i.e.) have not been hits.

A more accurate barometer of sexism in the payroll could be determined by how people who did not have the track record of big box-office success or failure behind them are paid. Well-respected players who aren't stars -- Michael Shannon and Sarah Paulson, say.

Sienna, in any case, has been in two recent film hits (American Sniper and Foxcatcher) whose success she did not have that much to do with. They did more for her than she for them. And the minute she began performing in Cabaret it was back on TDF. I am not a producer, but if I were I would not see her as a top box-office draw.

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Unfortunately the problem isn't helped by people who automatically want to turn on her for speaking out about something she thinks wasn't fair. People do this about race, gender and sexuality all the time.

She feels wronged, she spoke out about it, and didn't even call out people's names. Why is everyone so quick to jump on her and say she is wrong?

The majority of time people don't just make up that they feet discriminated against. It's really become popular to says someone is "pulling a card" . When in actuality they are talking about their feelings. Instead of having a discussion and getting to the bottom of it people get defensive.

In her defense she has the right to say she didn't do a two person play because of the money difference even if they brought Sir Larry Olivier back from the dead. It is her choice and she has the right to state that that's why she didn't do it .