Jennifer Lawrence Addresses Remark About Female-Led Action Movies After Backlash
Jennifer Lawrence is setting the record straight on a comment she made about female-led action movies following backlash.
At one point during the actress' conversation with Viola Davis for Variety's "Actors on Actors" series, Lawrence, 32, said, "I remember when I was doing 'Hunger Games,' nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work -- [because] we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead."
However, Lawrence received some backlash on Twitter over the particular remark in which she said that before she starred in "The Hunger Games" "nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work." Her comment became a trending topic as many pointed out how actresses such as Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton were the lead stars in the action franchises "Alien" and "Terminator," respectively.
On Thursday, Lawrence addressed her comment while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter.
"That's certainly not what I meant to say at all. I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film," she said. "What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels. And I meant that with Viola -- to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing."
"But it was my blunder and it came out wrong," she admitted, before adding, "I had nerves talking to a living legend."
As for why she decided to speak out about her comment, the Oscar winner said, "One time I was quoted saying that Donald Trump was responsible for hurricanes. I felt that one was ridiculous, that it was so stupid I didn’t need to comment. But this one, I was like, 'I think I want to clarify.'"
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