Cate Blanchett: pay everyone the same and 'get on with it'

Cate Blanchett says we need to get over the Hollywood gender pay gap discussion. Photo / Getty

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett says the gender pay gap conversation is "boring" and movie bosses just need to start giving men and women equal pay.

Blanchett and American actress Rooney Mara weighed in on the discussion in an interview for their upcoming film Carol.

"What are we still having the conversation about equal pay for equal work? Let's just get on with it," Blanchett told The Guardian.

"Women do the same work as men do, they should be paid equally. I mean, God!" she said. It's a boring conversation."

Mara, 30, said she's been in films where her male co-stars were paid twice as much as her.

"It's just sort of a reality of the time that we live in," said Mara."To me it's frustrating but at the same time I'm kind of just grateful to be getting paid at all for what I do," she said.

Mara echoed Jennifer Lawrence's sentiment that men and women are treated differently in Hollywood.

"To me the thing that I find to be more unfair than even the pay inequality is the terminology that's used to describe actresses who have a point of view and who want to have a voice in their life and in their career," said Mara.

"I've been called horrible things," she said. "I've been called things that you would never describe a man. If a man was acting in the same way that I've acted they would just be considered normal."

-AAP