Actress Michelle Williams has won the Emmy Award for best actress in a mini-series or movie. She was honored for her role as Broadway celebrity Gwen Verdon in the series "Fosse / Verdon". Williams dedicated her speech to the fight for equal pay for women and men in Hollywood.
The 39-year-old praised her employers - the television broadcaster FX and the production company Fox 21 Studios. Her bosses would never have patronized her, but made sure that Williams could do her job and honor Gwen Verdon so. "Thanks FX and Fox 21 Studios for supporting and paying me right away," Williams said.
"The next time a woman - especially a dark-skinned woman because she earns 52 cents and her male counterparts a dollar - tells you what she needs to do her job, then you listen and believe her," said Williams and got a lot of applause from the audience. The 39-year-old actress was already affected by the Gender Pay Gap in her own work.
In January 2018, US media revealed that Williams earned $ 1,000 on the subsequent shootings for the movie "All Money in the World." Her actor Mark Wahlberg got $ 1.5 million for the same amount of shooting days.
Wahlberg announced a little later in the social networks to donate his fee of 1.2 million euros to the legal protection fund of "Time's Up". The initiative had founded 300 Hollywood stars with the aim of preventing harassment of women in the workplace.
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At a Pay Gap meeting in Washington, Williams talked about unfair pay in April. She was paralyzed when she found out that her male colleague had earned $ 1.49 million more for the same job. "Nobody cared," she said. "It has strengthened my lifelong belief that equal treatment is not an inalienable right."
