Colman calls out Hollywood pay gap, says she’d make more as man

back against Wendy Williams‘ temporary guardian in court last month, arguing she moved to block “Where Is Wendy Williams?” from airing to “silence” criticism, according to newly unsealed documents.

Sabrina Morrissey, Williams’ temporary guardian, filed a lawsuit against A&E in New York County Supreme Court in February, seeking to stop Lifetime’s documentary “Where Is Wendy Williams?” from airing. But in court documents that were recently unsealed and obtained by USA TODAY, Rachel Strom, an attorney for A&E Networks, argued Morrissey tried to shut down the documentary only after seeing the way Williams’ guardianship was depicted in the trailer.

“Only after seeing the documentary’s trailer and realizing her role in Ms. (Williams’) life may be criticized did Ms. Morrissey enlist the courts to unconstitutionally silence that criticism,” the filing alleged.

In a complaint unsealed earlier this month, Morrissey sought a restraining order against the network, alleging that Williams, who in February announced she was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, “was not, and is not, capable of consenting to the terms” of the contract for the documentary.

Olivia Colman is wondering if she’d get there quicker if she were a man.

The Oscar-winning “The Favourite“star, 50, called out pay disparities between male and female actors in an interview with CNN, arguing that she would be earning more if she weren’t a woman.

“Research suggests that (women) have always been big box office draws, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they draw in the audiences, and actually, that hasn’t been true for decades,” Colman said. “But they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.”

The “Crown“star added that even though she has won multiple Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAS and more awards, she is “very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning ... a lot more than I am.” While she didn’t mention any specific pay disparities she has experienced, Colman said she knows of one case where there was an alleged “12,000% difference.”

In 2014, a Fivethirtyeight analysis of 1,615 movies released between 1990 to 2013 found no evidence “to support the idea that films with women perform any worse at the box office than films without them.” In fact, a study released by Time’s Up in 2018, which analyzed the top-grossing films from 2014 to 2017, concluded that movies led by women performed better at the box office than those led by men, The Associated Press reported.