Jessica Chastain Wants To Set A Reputation For Herself Against Wage Gap

Celebrated and Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain said that she is very particular about payment and likes to check the fairness of the pay before signing a new film.

"I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life. What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay." Said the actress.

Chastain said, she will never work in a film where the payment is less for her than her male counterpart.

"I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do." She added.

"But I don't want to be on a set where I'm doing the same work as someone else and they're getting five times what I'm getting," Chastain stated further.

"There was something huge that I recently turned down. For me, it wasn't about the money; it was an old-fashioned problem of the wage gap. I turned it down, and they didn't come back." Said the actress.

"I remember afterwards I was like, "What did I do? Maybe it was a mistake." But it wasn't because everyone in the studio system heard what I did." Jessica explained.

"So what you're doing is creating a reputation: Don't bring Jessica something where she's not being fairly compensated compared to the male actor. Even though I lost that film, I've created a boundary." Said Jessica.