Josh Hutcherson: the thought of womens pay sounds completely ignorant

A few weeks have passed since Jennifer Lawrence dropped her serious essay about wage inequality, which is notable because she’s speaking out on a social issue. JLaw likes to be jokey, not so serious, and she’s achieved her own wage equality (and then some), so the pattern (for most Hollywood types) would be to pretend the problem doesn’t exist. Yet it does, and JLaw isn’t pulling a Meryl Streep and pretending things are okay because she’s treated well in Hollywood.

In the aftermath of Jennifer’s essay she received support from Bradley Cooper, who pledged to stand up for his female co-stars during his future salary negotiations. JLaw is heavily in demand, so she’ll be fine. Other actresses, no so much. Jennifer’s Hunger Games co-star, Josh Hutcherson (the boy with the bread), spoke out on how he feels. In short, he can’t believe we’re still debating this issue in 2015:

The actress’ recent essay on the gender wage gap in Hollywood has taken off online, and now she has another supporter in her Hunger Games co-star Josh Hutcherson.

Hutcherson, whose new short film The Rusted premieres Thursday night on AOL’s BUILD series, told The Huffington Post that he thinks the essay is great. “I think it’s insane what happens with women’s pay. To even say those words, feels so stupid. To have to say the words ‘women’s pay.’ Like, it just sounds ignorant.”

The actor continued, “[Jennifer] is great. She’s the perfect person to speak on that. She’s very powerful, she’s very influential and she says what she thinks. And I think she makes a lot of great points — her and Amy Schumer. They’re doing a project together now, and they both have that personality of being yourself and accepting it, and I think Jen’s in a great position to fight for something like equal pay.”

[From Huffington Post]

I love him. JHutch knows where it’s at. He’s spoken out on a number of social issues and has a solid head on his shoulders. I’m also thrilled that he’s speaking out, because it’s extremely ridiculous that we have to have a huge discussion about this now. These issues should have been solved decades ago, but we still have plenty of work to do.

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