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Dominic West: I never realised pay disparity with Ruth Wilson

The Affair actor says co-star’s pay gap intervention ‘woke him up to injustice’

Dominic West has said he had no idea he was earning more than his female co-star in a major US drama and warned that the treatment of women in television has gone backwards in the past two decades.

The British actor insisted that he was shocked when Ruth Wilson, his co-star in the critically-acclaimed US drama The Affair, announced earlier this year that she earned less than him – despite winning a Golden Globe for her role.

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