Actress laments the gap in both pay and opportunity for women seeking challenging roles in cinema. During an interview before students at Loyola Marymount University School of Film & TV last week, Hilary Swank decried Hollywood’s gender gap, explaining why women continue to face challenges in acquiring both equal pay and meaningful roles. “My male counterpart will get paid 10 times more than me — 10 times,” she said in remarks recorded by The Hollywood Reporter. “Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. There’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, and wonderful in all their own separate ways, some that are similar, some that are not. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there’s just not for women.” Swank said that a lack of compelling roles is one reason why her filming schedule sometimes features large gaps. “People will say to me, geez, we haven’t really seen you for a year and a half,” she said. “It’s like well ’cause I haven’t found a role that I found compelling. And that’s frustrating because they can be created.”

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