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It didn’t take long for an entertainment reporter to ask Bradley Cooper about Jennifer Lawrence’s op-ed in Lena Dunham’s newsletter about the Hollywood wage gap. He’s one of the male actors in American Hustle who was paid more than Lawrence for the movie. Cooper hasn’t yet read the op-ed, but when an E! reporter singled out Lawrence blaming herself for not negotiating as much as she should have, the actor seized on that point.
As quoted in E! News, Cooper says: “One thing I could say is that’s interesting because if you think that you only deserve a certain amount and that’s not correct, it’s about changing that mindset and sticking up for yourself the way that Sienna did. So that’s a great thing.”
When the reporter asks Sienna Miller, who is sitting alongside him (they’re both promoting the movie Burnt together), what Cooper means, she says that she walked away from a play she wanted to do because she was offered less than half the pay of her only other costar, who was a man.
What Miller had to do doesn’t sound particularly empowering, and the actress admits as much, that it’s “what we have to start doing, unfortunately, at the expense of our creative dreams.”
