"The Crown" Actress Insists She'd Be Paid "A Fuck Lot More" If She Were A Man

Actress Olivia Coleman insists she�d be paid more if she were a man.

The 50-year-old British star spoke candidly about the perceived gender pay
gap in Hollywood as a guest on CNN�s �The Amanpour Hour.�

�Don�t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more
because they used to say they drew in the audiences,� the actress said. �And
actually, that hasn�t been true for decades but they still like to use that
as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.�

Amanpour asked if she herself was being underpaid even though she�s an
Oscar-winning actress.

�I�m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I�d be earning a f*** of a lot
more than I am,� Coleman replied. �I know of one pay disparity, which is a
12,000% difference.�

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The actress is best known stateside for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in
the hit Netflix period drama series �The Crown� during season 3 and season 4,
a part that earned her a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress. She also won a BAFTA for her work on the critically
acclaimed ITV crime drama series �Broadchurch.�

Coleman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Anne, Queen of Great Britain in
�The Favourite� (2018). She also received Academy Award nominations for her
performances in the dramas �The Father� (2020) and �The Lost Daughter�
(2021).

The topic of pay disparity between different sexes and races has been a hot
topic in Hollywood for some time. Recently, actress Taraji P. Henson made
similar comments about black female actors not being paid their worth.

�I�m just tired of working so hard, being gracious at what I do, getting paid
a fraction of the cost,� Henson said during an appearance on Gayle King�s
SiriusXM show in December 2023, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

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�I�m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over. You get
tired. I hear people go, �You work a lot.� I have to,� she said. �The math
ain�t math-ing. And you start working a lot, you have a team. Big bills come
with what we do. We don�t do this alone. It�s a whole team behind us. They
have to get paid.�

�They play in your face. And I�m just supposed to smile and grin and bear and
just keep going,� Henson added. �Enough is enough.�

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