Bryce Dallas Howard says she was paid “so much less” than Chris Pratt for Jurassic World films
Bryce Dallas Howard is calling out the treatment of women in Hollywood, particularly when it comes to how much female actors are paid in comparison to male stars.
In fact, the actor claims she was paid "so much less" than her Jurassic World co-star co-lead, Chris Pratt, referencing reports from 2018 that said she was paid $2 million less than him for the second movie in the three-part Jurassic Park sequel series.
"The reports were so interesting because I was paid so much less than the reports even said, so much less," Howard told Insider. "When I started negotiating for 'Jurassic,' it was 2014, and it was a different world, and I was at a great disadvantage. And, unfortunately, you have to sign up for three movies, and so your deals are set."
Chatting about how Pratt reacted to the pay gap, Howard revealed he pushed for fairer pay at every chance. "What I will say is that Chris and I have discussed it, and whenever there was an opportunity to move the needle on stuff that hadn't been already negotiated, like a game or a ride, he literally told me: 'You guys don't even have to do anything. I'm gonna do all the negotiating. We're gonna be paid the same, and you don't have to think about this, Bryce'," Howard added.
The 41-year-old continued: "And I love him so much for doing that. I really do, because I've been paid more for those kinds of things than I ever was for the movie."
For context, the Jurassic World franchise has been a blockbuster hit, with figures showing that so far Jurassic World has made $652,270,625. The second movie in the series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, raked in $417,719,760 and the most recent instalment, Jurassic World: Dominion, has so far totalled $373,106,310.
Howard isn't the only Hollywood celeb to have called out the gender pay gap on set, however. Previously, Jennifer Lawrence admitted she was "mad" at herself after finding out the difference in pay between herself and her male co-stars, whilst Sienna Miller said that "[women] really should be compensated sometimes more than male co-stars."
It's something that women across the world can no doubt relate too, given that the gender pay gap is still a very real issue. Since 2017, public and private sector employers with 250 or more employees here in the UK have been required to publish data on the gender pay gap within their organisations each year.
The move was aimed at tackling the gender pay gap, but there's still a long way to go with the most recent figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showing that in April 2021, the gender pay gap among full-time employees was 7.9%. When the salaries of both full-time and part-time employees were taken into account, the gap was much wider, with the median pay for all employees being 15.4% less for women than for men.
Cosmopolitan UK has reached out to Universal Studios for comment.
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