Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer show us how you can team up with your coworkers

During a recent conversation, Spencer said she and Chastain were passionately “dropping F-bombs” about gender pay gaps in Hollywood when Spencer noted that there are pay gaps between white women and women of color that also need to be addressed.

“I said, ‘But here’s the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women,’ ” Spencer recalled telling Chastain. “And I told her my story, and we talked numbers, and she was quiet, and she said she had no idea that that’s what it was like for women of color.”

When Chastain heard Spencer’s salary, she promised Spencer she would help her get paid more for the upcoming comedy they were slotted to star in together. Spencer said Chastain told the studio that their salaries would be bundled together, so that getting Chastain onboard to the project was conditional upon Spencer getting a better deal. “She said ‘You and I are gonna be tied together. We’re gonna be favored nations, and we’re gonna make the same thing. You are going to make that amount,’ ” Spencer said. “Fast-forward to last week, we’re making five times what we asked for.”

It is one thing to talk about solidarity, it’s another to actually put your promises into action. Spencer’s story is a lesson for us all to find our Jessica Chastain allies in the office who are ready to more than talk to help us.

She had been underpaid for so long. When I discovered that , I realized that I could tie her deal to mine to bring up her quote. Men should start doing this with their female costars.

Spencer later clarified that she did not know if Chastain’s help came at a “cost” to Chastain’s salary, but that she is “eternally grateful” for her help.

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