▲Williams found out in 2018 that she was paid less than her co-star, Mark Wahlberg, for re-shoots for the movie 'All the Money in the World.' Apparently, most of the money went to Wahlberg, who earned US$1.5 million while Williams only made US$80 a day, which resulted in a total of US$1,000. She received tons of support from her fellow actresses, and Wahlberg decided to donate the money to the Times Up Legal Defense Fund.

▲Paltrow opened up during an interview with 'Variety': "Your salary is a way to quantify what you’re worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels s*****."

▲Lawrence wrote an essay in 'Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter' on gender pay gap titled 'Why do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?'

▲In an interview with 'Cosmo', Minaj opened up about power and money. "Women are uncomfortable talking about money. I know it's taboo to discuss it at work. Technically, you shouldn't, but you need to know what people around you are making. Otherwise, you're not going to know what you're worth," the rapper said.

▲The 'How To Get Away With Murder' star opened up about the struggle for black actresses to be paid equal to white women. "I have a career that’s probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver," she said. "They had the same path as me, and yet I am nowhere near them. Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities, nowhere close to it."

▲At Variety's Power of Women luncheon, the actress stated in her speech that women deserve equality. "This is a problem that is in every single industry. If you have the same capacities and you are doing the same job, it is criminal not to pay the same salary," Hayek said.

▲Stone also shared her experience with wage disparity in an interview with People: "After 'Basic Instinct,' no one wanted to pay me," she said. "I remember sitting in my kitchen with my manager and just crying and saying I’m not going to work until I get paid," the actress added.

▲Bullock talked about gender equality as part of Variety's cover story: "We’re going to walk down the red carpet, I’m going to be asked about my dress and my hair while the man standing next to me will be asked about his performance and political issues. Once we start shifting how we perceive women and stop thinking about them as 'less than,' the pay disparity will take care of itself."

▲"It is unfair and something that should be remedied, but you hope that by speaking out about the pay gap within the entertainment business, that it has a wider effect," Mulligan told USA TODAY.

▲When commenting about the wage gap in Hollywood on HuffPost Live, Collette said, "I don’t understand why genitalia makes a difference. Creativity is creativity. Creativity is genderless. Money is genderless."

▲The actress turned down a role because she knew her male counterpart would be offered more money.

▲When Robin Wright discovered that co-star Kevin Spacey was paid more for his role in 'House of Cards,' she told Netflix: "'You better pay me or I’m going to go public.' And they did."

▲Adams depicted the wage-gap issue in an interview with The Telegraph: "I do believe in equal pay, but let’s start with our teachers. Let’s get waiters paid the minimum wage. That’s what’s great about what’s happening with Time’s Up—we’re starting to have bigger conversations than just about what’s happening in Hollywood."

▲Comedian Mo'Nique appeared in the news for calling for a Netflix boycott over equal pay. The streaming company allegedly offered her US$500,000 for a stand-up comedy special, while comedians such as Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Amy Schumer were offered millions. Mo'Nique called for a Netflix boycott on Twitter for color and gender bias.

▲Cumberbatch told Radio Times that he would refuse any role where his female co-star wasn't paid the same as he was.

▲"I’ve needed my male co-stars to take a pay cut so that I may have parity with them. And that’s something they do for me because they feel it’s what’s right and fair," Stone told 'Out' magazine.

▲Oprah stood up for her female producers of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' by convincing her boss to give them a raise. "I went to my boss at the time and I said 'Everybody needs a raise,' And he said, 'Why?' He actually said to me, 'They’re only girls. They’re a bunch of girls — what do they need more money for?' I go, 'Well, either they’re going to get raises, or I’m going to sit down.' I will not work unless they get paid."

▲Octavia Spencer recalled a conversation she had with her friend and co-star Jessica Chastain in an interview with Hollywood Foreign Press: "Here’s the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women," Spencer said. "So, if we’re gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table," she continued.

▲Emily Blunt says she takes "agressive action" to fight the wage disparity in Hollywood. "I took it on as my personal responsibility to make sure that I don’t feel shortchanged or less than," she told Vanity Fair.

▲Miller admitted to have turned down a Broadway role because her salary was much lower than the male co-star. It was a play with just two of us on stage and I was offered less than half of what he was going to be paid. If it was two men, it wouldn’t probably happen. Sad, but I walked away," she told Vogue.

▲"Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift," Keys stated in an interview with Variety. "We have to infiltrate our industries. Period. We have to. That alone will shift the power balance."

▲Chastain admitted she doesn't accept jobs where she's paid less than the male actors anymore. "I’m not taking jobs anymore where I’m getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I’m not allowing that in my life."

▲"Equality, parity, and safe work environments for men and women across all industries are key; I know it’s affected your network," Parker said to Ryan Seacrest.

▲'Grey's Anatomy' actress Ellen Pompeo talked about her struggles with wage disparity in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "At one point, I asked for $5,000 more than [Patrick Dempsey] just on principle, because the show is Grey’s Anatomy and I’m Meredith Grey. They wouldn’t give it to me."

▲The former host of 'E! News' found out that her male colleagues were paid way more than her and tried to negotiate a raise. After the network denied her request, she decided to quit.

▲"I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts. We want people to start having this conversation that women are just as valuable as men," Messing said after hearing about the gender discrimination at E! News.

▲Eva Longoria, alongside other stars, showed her support for Catt Sadler. She told E! News' Ryan Seacrest: "We’re here for Time’s Up, we support gender equity and equal pay, and we hope that E! follows that lead with Catt as well. We stand with you, Catt."

▲Witherspoon has often been vocal about gender wage gap in the movie industry, and even helped 'HBO' close its gender wage gap in 2018.

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When Jennifer Lawrence opened up about the gender pay gap in Hollywood, Cooper totally supported her. The actor told Reuters that he will team up with his female co-stars to negotiate salaries before shooting a film, and that it's time to be more open about the financial stuff.

▲The actress tweeted, "I said it before. I’ll say it again. BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD," and added the hashtags #AllEyesOnUS and #PayThem. Keep clicking to see what she had to say about Hollywood.

▲The actress tweeted, "Come on @FIFAWorldCup let’s take this great moment and remove gender from the equation and go for parity and EQUAL PAY! You can do it. The WORLD is watching! #EQUALPAYFOREQUALPLAY"

▲“I think gender pay gap is a global problem. It exits in every profession, be it Hollywood, Bollywood or the business sector where male are paid more than females. I feel it's a big problem and is not just confined to the film industry," Chopra told ANI.

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In 2019, after taking home their fourth consecutive trophy, the team's fans in the stadium started a thunderous chant of "Equal pay! Equal pay!" All 28 players famously sued US Soccer for equal pay to their male counterparts. After the win, Rapinoe said, "We as players, every player at this World Cup, put on the most incredible show that you could ever ask for. We cannot do anything more to impress more, to be better ambassadors, to take on more, to play better or do anything. It’s time to take it forward to the next step."

▲The woman responsible for introducing equal prize money across gender in tennis tweeted about the US Women's Soccer team: "These athletes have brought more attention, support, & pride to women’s sport than perhaps any other team in history. It is long past time to pay them what they rightly deserve."

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Nearly two decades after the release of 2002's 'Spider-Man,' Kirsten Dunst, who starred as Mary Jane Watson, is speaking out about the immense pay gap between herself and Tobey Maguire. The actress revealed to The Independent, "The pay disparity between me and Spider-Man was very extreme," she said. "I didn't even think about it. I was just like, 'Oh yeah, Tobey [Maguire] is playing Spider-Man.'" According to the outlet, the first 'Spider-Man' film pulled in US$821 million and its 2004 sequel brought in US$789 million, but despite all its success, Dunst was paid significantly less than Maguire even while being equally used in promotional material. "But you know who was on the cover of the second Spider-Man poster? Spider-Man and ME," she said.

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Tennis star Venus Williams has been acutely aware of the gender pay gap for decades, particularly in her own sport, where men's prize money used to vastly surpass the women's prizes. It was 2006 before Williams won the same prize money as Roger Federer at Wimbledon. She has championed this issue and started an initiative called the Privilege Tax. Participating brands, including her own fashion label, will give customers the opportunity to donate US$1 when making a purchase which will be donated to the nonprofit Girls Inc. Williams explained on 'CBS Mornings' that she never expected to be playing this role. She simply wanted to go to Wimbledon and win, but when she got there, she realized there was something wrong with the system. She went on to become passionate about pay inequality and found herself in a position to be able to do something about it.

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'Scream' star Neve Campbell announced she wouldn't be returning in her famed role as Sidney Prescott in the franchise's sixth film, Deadline reports, and it's because she found she wasn't being paid her due.

“As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream," the actress revealed about her role in the massively lucrative (over US$744 million-grossing) global franchise. “I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise."

Campbell continued, “It’s been a very difficult decision to move on. To all my Scream fans, I love you. You’ve always been so incredibly supportive to me. I’m forever grateful to you and to what this franchise has given me over the past 25 years."

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Initial reports in 2018 showed Chris Pratt took home US$10 million compared to Bryce Dallas Howard's US$8 million for the 'Jurassic World' sequel 'Fallen Kingdom,' but the actress revealed in an interview with Insider that she was actually paid "so much less," than the reported estimate. Howard added that she was at a "great disadvantage" when negotiations for the blockbuster series began in 2014, especially because, "unfortunately, you have to sign up for three movies and so your deals are set." Since Pratt was a bigger star due to 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' he was given more. Luckily, Howard claims Pratt stood up for her outside of their three-movie deal and ended up boosting her negotiations when it came to things like spin-off games and theme park rides, so that in the end they both walked away with equal pay. Howard added that she's "been paid more for those kinds of things than I ever was for the movie."

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Equal pay for men and women has been in the headlines for the past years. And even if we've come a long way, wage inequality is still an issue to this day. Hollywood is no exception, and they have also proven to struggle with salary disparities, with many celebrities taking a stand.

Jennifer Lawrence is never afraid to say it like it is and has spoken out on the gender pay gap between male and female actors in Hollywood in the past, even writing an open letter on the subject. When it was revealed that the A-list actress would earn less than her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio for the 2021 movie 'Don't Look Up' (US$25 million to his US$30 million), fans were expecting more of a reaction. At the time of its release, Lawrence simply said, "Look, Leo brings in more box office than I do. I'm extremely fortunate and happy with my deal," but acknowledged that it's very uncomfortable to inquire about equal pay as an actress. "You're told it's not gender disparity but they can't tell you what exactly it is."

In a interview with Vogue, Lawrence expressed a little more exasperation on the issue. She acknowledged that all actors at her level are overpaid, but said that the discrepancy still hurts. "It doesn’t matter how much I do. I’m still not going to get paid as much as that guy, because of my vagina?”

Click through the gallery and read what these celebrities had to say about the wage-gap issue.