Sienna Miller 'finally understood how it feels to be a man' when paid properly for a role

‘MeToo felt like a moment for women to rise up for other women’

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Sienna Miller has spoken out about being treated poorly over the course of her career, claiming she has been “screamed at, underpaid and undervalued and treated like s***”.

The British actor also revealed she’d only recently been paid a “significant amount of money” for the first time in her life.

“I finally understood how it must have felt to be a man,” she told Porter Edit of the sizeable paycheck.

In 2015, Miller revealed she turned down a role in a play because she was offered less than half the pay offered to her male co-star, whose role was as significant as hers would have been.

The actor, who recently spoke of the "disgusting" sexism she has experienced in Hollywood, also told the publication that while she had been fortunate enough to have never experienced sexual harassment in her industry, she said that like all women she has “of course” experienced behaviour of this nature in her life “because we’re women”. She added that the MeToo and Time’s Up movements “felt like a moment for women to rise up, if nothing else, for other women”.

In the interview, Miller also explained why she is not on Instagram.

“I don’t even have the app,” the American Woman star said, adding that while everyone should feel “connected”, there are obvious downsides to using social media so frequently.

“I do see that people are more anxious, more depressed and less connected than they were before,” she explained.

Miller did used to have the app, though she confessed she spent “every spare moment” scrolling through her newsfeed but explained that the thought of uploading her own content now fills her with dread.

“You have to be willing to really expose your world and your life and open that up to people, and I just can’t do it without a f**k ton of anxiety.” She said, adding: “but as soon as I’m around someone who’s got it, I’m like, ‘Gimme your phone,’ and I just totally crack out on it.”