J-Law reportedly received much less than male co-stars for 'American Hustle'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}December 8, 2013. The cast of "American Hustle,"(L-R) Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner pose for a portrait in New York. (Reuters)
Her e-mail moniker is “peanutbutt,” according to the growing trove of leaked Sony docs — but other leaks show Jennifer Lawrence could just as well call herself “works for peanuts," reports The New York Post.
Newly revealed e-mails show that J-Law has been paid considerably less than her male co-stars on “American Hustle.”
The e-mails detail the “points” — or back-end payments — that each of the actors in “American Hustle” would be receiving, and Lawrence and fellow female star Amy Adams were arguably getting hustled.
Lawrence and Adams got just 7 percent, according to the e-mails, which were uncovered on Friday by The Daily Beast.
Contrast that with the 9 percent that Sony offered to director David O. Russell as well as male co-stars Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner.
Andrew Gumpert, president of business affairs for Sony’s Columbia Pictures, admits in a Dec. 5, 2013 e-mail that he got a “rush call” complaining that the men were getting more than the ladies.
But Gumpert stuck to his guns — even patting himself on the back for having given “2 extra points for Jennifer to get her up to 7.”
The latest e-mails also reveal an exchange between beleaguered Sony Pictures exec Amy Pascal and Brian Helgeland, the screenwriter for Angelina Jolie’s foundering pet project, “Cleopatra,” in which Pascal suggests Helgeland dump Jolie in favor of Lawrence, the site reported.