Amanda Seyfried has revealed she was paid a 10th of the wage her male co-star received for an unnamed big-budget movie, at a time when both were well-known names in Hollywood.
The star of the films Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls and Ted 2 told the Sunday Times there is a long way to go before gender pay disparity in the film industry can be considered a thing of the past. “A few years ago, on one of my big-budget films, I found I was being paid 10% of what my male co-star was getting, and we were pretty even in status,” she told the newspaper.