Cavill was probably not paid $14 million for Man of Steel.
Gal Gadot was probably paid $300,000 for Wonder Woman.
To be certain, there is absolutely a gender pay gap between actors and actresses in Hollywood, but Gal Gadot’s salary for Wonder Woman isn’t an example of it. There’s only one problem: The scenario in Duca’s original tweet wasn’t true. And it’s easy to see why: Not only is it absolutely absurd to think that Gadot was paid 46 times less than Cavill for a better movie, but if it happened to Gadot, the insinuation is that other actresses are likely suffering from the same pay gap. It all began when Lauren Duca, a columnist at Teen Vogue, tweeted the following (now deleted) sentiment:ĭuca’s tweet was retweeted more than 14,500 times and quickly drew attention to the story.
Thanks to a poorly sourced news story, the power of Twitter to make something go viral, and the erotic allure of online outrage, an urban legend was born on Tuesday morning: that the $300,000 Gal Gadot was paid for her starring role in Wonder Woman was pennies compared with Henry Cavill’s alleged payment of $14 million for 2013’s Man of Steel.
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