Los Angeles

ONE of Hollywood's top movie stars Jennifer Lawrence hit out against film industry sexism in a blunt essay on Tuesday for an online feminist newsletter. The actress blasted pay inequality between the sexes in her fierce essay on Tuesday, titled "Why Do These Dudes Make More Than Me?", but admitted she had failed to tackle the issue out of fear of being labelled "difficult" or "spoiled".

She said that when she found out from Sony emails leaked last year that she was paid less than her male co-stars in the hit movie American Hustle, she didn't get mad at Sony but at herself. "I would be lying if I didn't say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight," Lawrence said in her post. "At the time, that seemed like a fine idea, until I saw the payroll on the Internet and realised every man I was working with definitely didn't worry about being 'difficult' or 'spoiled'."