Look Inside the Marie Claire Change Makers Party in Los Angeles

"I’m really inspired to be here," Chastain told MarieClaire.com on her way into the event. "I’m really excited to see who’s going to be on the cover next year, who’s going to be at the event. I’m so moved that Marie Claire decided to publish this portfolio of social activists—these women who are working every day to promote inclusivity and diversity and use their platform to help others. I’m so honored to be here."

"Now [fighting for pay equality is] actually coming back in the opposite effect because I’ve had actors who didn’t have a quote as high as I had and they’ve contacted my lawyer and say, 'Since Jessica believes in pay equality, can we get paid the same? We have the same amount of work,'" Chastain told MarieClaire.com of the impact of her public fight for pay equality. "And I’ve actually responded, 'Absolutely.' For me, I don’t mind if it means I’m getting paid less. I truly believe if you do the same amount of work, you should get paid equally."

"I think it’s an ongoing conversation and I think that we all are aware and we can see the dramatic impact that diversity has when it is represented in our art," Busy Philipps, posing with MCM chief visionary Kim Sung-joo, told MarieClaire.com at the event. "Culturally, we look to the art to reflect our society back to us and figure things out and answer the big questions. So obviously it makes sense that that should be a true reflection of the world we’re living in. So that’s why I think change makers are so important."

"I think we’re going in a really incredible direction in terms of representation and I feel like the movie studios are really getting the gist of it," said Phillips, seen here with Anne Fulenwider. "I think more women and more humans of color behind the camera and in positions of power in studios and networks are going to be instrumental in green-lighting these projects."

"I feel like history is made on the shoulders of change makers and people who didn’t play it safe and who always tried to better the human experience in some way and it was serving others, not themselves," actress Karla Souza, pictured here (left) with Nina Shaw, told us at the Change Makers event in Los Angeles. "So, for me to be invited into this edition of change makers is very humbling and also motivating to keep being part of that history of people who impact society in that way."

Josie Jay Totah and Skai Jackson at the Change Maker event in Los Angeles.

Rain Valdez and Jill Soloway.

Emayatzy Corinealdi.

Francia Raisa at the Change Maker event in Los Angeles.