As the Time's Up movement continues its work, another successful actress has revealed that she previously wasn't making the same amount of money as her male co-stars.
Speaking to The Wrap ahead of the Season 2 premiere, Westworld's Evan Rachel Wood, who of course plays Dolores Abernathy on the show, said, "I think I’m just now to the point where I’m getting paid the same as my male co-stars."
Wood found out that she'd be making the same amount of money as her male co-stars for Season 3 (the show's second series premieres this Sunday). "I was just told, 'Hey, you're getting equal pay,’" she said. "And I was like [gasp]. And I almost got emotional. I was like, 'I have never been paid the same as my male counterparts… Never, never.'"
Of the struggle for pay parity, Wood continued:
"I’m always fighting for that. And I have turned down projects. Westworld, it's like, I get it a little more. It's like, 'Well, you're Anthony Hopkins or Ed Harris.' But I think now we're all doing equal amounts of work and really hard work."
The actress also revealed that this is the first time she's seen a major increase in her wages throughout her career; she said she'd been making "pretty much the same amount of money on things for years... But this is the first time that somebody made a point of being like, 'Hey you're getting this. And you deserve it.' And that was nice."
Season 2 of Westworld begins airing on Sunday, April 22, on HBO.
