Olivia Colman: "if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a fuck of a lot more"

[pink_disco]

Olivia Colman on Pay Disparity in Hollywood: "If I Was Oliver Colman, I’d Be Earning a F*** of a Lot More" https://t.co/vBqzFWXryh
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 24, 2024

Comments

[automaticpeople]

If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.

[mspopstar]

And you’re still paid a lot more and getting more roles that any woman of color could dream of. Enough.

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[butnow]

So white men getting paid more for solely the sake of being white men isn't an issue as long as there's someone who's not only marginalised and paid unfairly due to gender but also due to race? Women of colour are also affected by structural misogyny, just like they're affected by structural racism, and both are real issues. Must be nice if misogyny is such a non-issue to you that people should just shut up about it. Wish all women were that lucky.

[mspopstar]

Of course WOC are affected by misogyny, duh. My issue is the fact that we only give space to white women’s grievances in this conversation, and I’m over it. When you look at the numbers, the math isn’t mathing, and woc are systemically fucked over white women, without them ever acknowledging it. From experience, if WW were paid the same as WM, you wouldn’t hear a peep from them (see Sharon Stone’s « I hope this is not white fragility » under a woc post about inequality in the industry)

[a_files06]

You can have 100 female lead movies that are successful but you have 1 that flops...Hollywood is all "females dont sell tickets and cant have successful movies"

Same for tv.

[automaticpeople]

My mind thought this was a Lady Gaga quote for one second.

[dancemusic]

you can have 100 female lead movies in a room and 99 aren't aren't believed in and wait this is unfortunately true :(

[a_files06]

she was my inspo

[the5thcircle]

Question: Why are people flaming Olivia like she made the comparison?

I see loads of comments about the pay disparity between POC and Olivia Colman. I clicked the article just to make sure, but I don't see Olivia making the comparison to Taraji P. Henson. That's the article's writer.

I'm sure Olivia is aware she's paid more than POC actors. It doesn't make her point about the pay disparity being 12,000% in one instance invalid. We can be mad at both things without attacking someone saying it rather than the system that created and benefits from it. That's a distraction, not a solution.

[misoras]

I was mostly attacking the comparison. I just don’t care (as a black woman) about privileged white women’s complaints. Always “equality” in the guise of “I want to be the same as white men”.

[daijouboo]

I do wonder what the world would look like if everyone had to be transparent about how much money they were making. I've talked about this a lot on here, but I used to work in the service industry in New Orleans and would get really annoyed when actors wouldn't tip or would tip really poorly. Because here they are in an extremely poor city getting paid more per episode of their little show, than most people down here make in a year, but they're also probably completely oblivious to that gross imbalance.

[a_files06]

It'd be so much different!

Rosie told Sherri what she was making on The View and what to ensure to ask for when negotiating. Her pay/perks would've been 100% different/lower if Rosie hadnt been transparent.

[daijouboo]

I love that Rosie did that. It's shameful how poorly women of color get paid.

[screamingintune]

I mean, even on a small scale level. When I worked retail there would often be a rule in place that you couldn't tell people what you made. Because they would hire new people and pay them more as a starting salary than people who'd been there for awhile were making, or whatever. Transparency is an equalizer and businesses do NOT want that. They want to be able to continue to underpay people. Or to cut hours for people who have seniority and are making more than newer people