Michelle Williams meets with lawmakers to push equal pay for equal work

Michelle Williams.
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To mark Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, actress Michelle Williams headed to Capitol Hill to speak with lawmakers about closing the gender pay gap.

Standing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and members of the Democratic Women's Caucus, Williams spoke about how she felt when she learned in 2017 that her All the Money in the World costar Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million to reshoot scenes, after Kevin Spacey was removed from the film. Williams was paid less than $1,000, receiving just $80 a day for the same amount of work.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.