Now a team of economists has determined the width of that gap: male Hollywood stars earn $1.1m more per film than their similarly experienced female co-stars.
When these factors were stripped out, it showed female stars were paid 56% less than their male counterparts – the equivalent of $2.2m less per film.
For a real scandal in acting has always been the huge gender pay gap.
The research also found the gap grew with age, something that Izquierdo Sanchez attributed to “the beauty value of the market”.