It has been more than a year since director Adam Mc Kay's dark comedy "Don't Look Up" was released on Netflix, but the information surrounding it has become a topic of discussion until now.
Recently, a source from Unilad said that Jennifer Lawrence was unhappy to discover Leonardo DiCaprio receiving a salary of $30 million, $5 million more than her, when they both starred in Don't Look Up.
Playing the roles of two astronomers Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), they accidentally discover a meteorite about to crash into Earth, which could lead to the end of the world.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are in the Top 10 actors with the highest salaries in Hollywood in 2021.
They are talented actors, so receiving 25-30 million USD for a role is considered worthy.
Jennifer Lawrence is a star who won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook" in 2013.
Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio is the most famous actor in Hollywood. Not only did he win the Best Actor award at the 2016 Oscar, Leo is also known as the "box office guarantee", there are few projects he has participated in that have failed to achieve revenue in the past decade.
However, Jennifer Lawrence is not satisfied with this salary. Previously, in an interview with Vogue magazine in October 2022, Lawrence also mentioned being paid lower than Leo: "The problem is that no matter how much I try, I can't get paid as much as him. Because I am a woman or not? ".
However, Jennifer Lawrence's loss of more than 5 million USD to Leonardo DiCaprio received mixed reactions.
The audience believes that Jennifer, on behalf of many female actors, speaking out about gender discrimination in Hollywood is a good thing to do. However, she compared her salary to Leo because she was lazy.
Many opinions have shown that Leonardo DiCaprio actually has much more seniority, position and commercial value than Jennifer Lawrence.
Since his lifelong role in Titanic (1997) - the film with the 4th highest box office revenue in the history of world cinema, received 14 nominations and won 11 Oscars - Leonardo DiCaprio has become a leading Hollywood star.
Director Quentin tarantino once revealed that Leonardo could almost choose to act in any film he wanted, because he was the guarantee of box office revenue.
Leonardo is still at the top without having to participate in any "superstar universe" or film brand, because he himself is the most valuable brand.
Sony Film Studio president Tom Rothman also commented: Leonardos brand is popularity.
This is not the first time Jennifer Lawrence has caused controversy about his statements.
At the end of last year, in an interview with Variety, Jennifer shocked everyone when she proudly affirmed that she was the first woman to star in an action film (The Hunger Games). Thereby, the actress mentioned the issue of gender discrimination in Hollywood when men are always valued more highly.
But her sharing received a lot of criticism. The audience thought that the Oscar-winning star was too confident and told the truth. Before Jennifer Lawrence, Hollywood had many outstanding "women" such as Sigourney Weaver in "Alien", Angelina Jolie in "Salt", Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill"...
Some audiences also pointed out that when filming Passengers with Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence was paid a salary of 8 million USD higher than his co-star. But now, Jennifer Lawrence is taking the salary issue to talk about the issue of demanding "female quyen".
