While Season 3 has not yet been confirmed, Wood says the show has made major steps toward pay parity.
In an interview with The Wrap, Evan Rachel Wood says that Westworld Season 3 will be the first time she’s made the same money as her male co-stars.
Wood says she’s been paid “pretty much the same amount of money on things for years,” but was recently told “‘Hey you’re, you’re getting equal pay'” for the as-yet-unconfirmed third season of Westworld.
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Wood added that she’s realistic about how actors’ salaries tend to work. “It’s like, ‘Well, you’re Anthony Hopkins or Ed Harris.’” But now that the show has built a large following, “I think now we’re all doing equal amounts of work and really hard work,” Wood said.
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The news of Wood’s pay bump comes shortly after HBO boss Casey Bloys told the Hollywood Reporter that in response to the Time’s Up movement, the studio had embarked on a pay leveling effort. “We just finished our process where we went through and made sure that there were no inappropriate disparities in pay; and where there were, if we found any, we corrected it going forward,” Bloys said.
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