Jennifer Lawrence is the highest paid actress in Hollywood.
Lawrence’s new movie The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 is expected to become a box office hit movie selling millions of tickets across the world. But, as JLaw pointed out in her open essay, she is still battling’ Hollywood’s pay gap for female actors.
In a new report by The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Lawrence went into fierce negotiations for the upcoming Passengers movie which is now filming in Atlanta, Georgia.
Passengers is about a man, played by Chris Pratt, who is among thousands of passengers on a colony ship on an interstellar journey. Awakened early from a cryogenic sleep by a system malfunction, he finally makes the decision to wake another sleeping passenger, to be played by Jennifer Lawrence, to avoid spending decades alone on the ship.
From THR:
At the outset, Sony made it clear that the studio wasn’t willing to shell out the same $20 million it was paying for Lawrence to star opposite Chris Pratt in its sci-fi project Passengers, and Lawrence is said to have been willing to reduce her upfront fee to work with Linklater in the romantic dramedy.
This caused drama for her next feature film, The Rosie Project. The Rosie Project centers around “an unconventional woman who upends the world of an unlucky-in-love university professor looking to find a wife through a foolproof questionnaire.” Apparently, Sony Pictures did not want to pay Jennifer Lawrence another $20 million to star in the Richard Linklater movie The Rosie Project.
But the sources say the CAA-repped actress, fresh from a tough negotiation on Passengers, became frustrated as Rosie dealmaking dragged on and began to reevaluate her interest. “Rothman was doing a lot of grinding on The Rosie Project, and it took its toll,” says a source with knowledge of the negotiations. “If it had been done more quickly, it wouldn’t have fallen apart.”
This ended up causing problems with Sony Pictures as the director and Jennifer Lawrence both quit the movie. A source close to The Hollywood Reporter said, “The bottom line was she had too much time to think about it.”
In a quick piece of trivia, Jennifer Lawrence makes approximately 31,250,000% more per day than a background extra on Passengers.
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